United States Second Circuit

Certificate of appealability held in abeyance while the district court identifies the grounds on which it denied a petition, insofar as it asserted claims that plaintiff was denied the right to represent himself and a fair trial because of prosecutorial misconduct.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2003
• Published 02/27/2003

Judges

• KEARSE, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, STRAUB, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Larry W. Yackle, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts (Perry S. Reich, Schapiro & Reich, Lindenhurst, New York, NY, on the brief), for Petitioners-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Amy Appelbaum, Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, Brooklyn, New York (Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney for Kings County, Leonard Joblove, Victor Barall, Assistant District Attorneys, Brooklyn, New York, Richard A. Brown, District Attorney for Queens County, John M. Castellano, Assistant District Attorney, Kew Gardens, New York, Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, Valerie Singleton, Assistant Attorney General, New York, New York, on the brief), for Respondents-Appellees.