United States Second Circuit

The grant of plaintiff's habeas corpus petition is reversed where the offer of a bench trial before another judge did not coerce plaintiff into waiving his right to trial by jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2004
• Published 08/31/2004

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  FEINBERG and SACK, Circuit Judges, WEXLER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Lewis, The Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division Appeals Bureau, New York, NY, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• William A. Gerard, Palisades, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee., Tina Guccione, District Attorney's Office Rockland County (Michael E. Bongiorno, District Attorney, Ellen O'Hara Woods, Ann C. Sullivan, Senior Assistant District Attorneys, of counsel), New City, NY, for Respondent-Appellant.