United States Second Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed over his claim that the state trial judge violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by barring attorney-client communications during two midday recesses from his testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2005
• Published 06/20/2005

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, SOTOMAYOR and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Georgia J. Hinde, New York, NY, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Emil Bricker, Assistant District Attorney for Queens County (Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, John M. Castellano, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), Kew Gardens, NY, for respondent-appellee.