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SIMMONS v. REYNOLDS

No. 88 C 2909.

708 F.Supp. 505 (1989)

Norman SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. Edward F. REYNOLDS, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, and The People of the State of New York, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

March 15, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Simmons, Rome, N.Y., pro se.

Elizabeth Holtzman, Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Jessica Hecht, Asst. Dist. Atty., of counsel), for respondents.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NICKERSON, District Judge.

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982), claiming that his court-appointed counsel's failure to perfect his appeal for six years denied him due process of law and effective assistance of counsel.

I.

A Kings County grand jury indicted petitioner in 1980 on one count of second-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree...

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