United States Second Circuit

Grant of application for writ of habeas corpus, based on district court's finding that the state court's application of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1994), was objectively unreasonable for having rejected a Sixth Amendment challenge based on various alleged failures of counsel, is reversed because the state court's determination was not an unreasonable application of federal law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2006
• Published 03/30/2006

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before:  MINER, RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and KARAS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Susan M. Damplo, Attorney at Law, Ardsley, N.Y., for Petitioner-Appellee., Stanley R. Kaplan, Assistant District Attorney, Bronx County (Joseph N. Ferdenzi, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief;  Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx County), Bronx, N.Y., for Respondent-Appellant.