OCHOA v. U.S.

No. 717, Docket 86-2357.

819 F.2d 366 (1987)

Eduardo OCHOA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diarmuid White, New York City (Richard Ware Levitt, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Stephen F. Markstein, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. for S.D. of New York, Nancy Kilson, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, KEARSE and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Eduardo Ochoa, a federal prisoner incarcerated upon a conviction of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, John M. Cannella, Judge, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. To the extent pertinent to this appeal, the petition challenged Ochoa's continued incarceration on the grounds that the United...

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