United States Second Circuit

District court judgment denying a petition for habeas corpus relief is affirmed where the state court's rejection of plaintiff's ineffective assistance of counsel argument was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of federal law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2009
• Published 08/11/2009

Judges

• Before:  FEINBERG, STRAUB, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan Epstein (Steven Banks, on the brief), The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ashlyn Dannelly, Assistant Attorney General (Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General;  Roseann B. MacKechnie, Deputy-Solicitor General;  Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Respondents-Appellees.