United States Second Circuit

District court judgment denying petition for habeas corpus in a robbery case 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 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

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.