In a robbery prosecution, grant of petitioner’s habeas petition is reversed where the district court erred in failing to accord the deference required by 28 U.S.C. section 2254(d) to the state court’s evaluation of the pretrial identification procedures used by the police.
Read Dunlap v. Burge, No. 07-0592
Appellate Information
Submitted: February 5, 2009
Decided: September 28, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Stanceu
Counsel
For Appellant:
Sally Wasserman, New York, NY
For Appellee:
John Sergi, Janet DiFiore, Joseph M. Latino, and Anthony J. Servino, Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, White Plains, NY
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