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PETERSON v. LeFEVRE

No. 87 Civ. 7776 (JES).

753 F.Supp. 518 (1991)

Anthony PETERSON, Petitioner, v. Eugene LeFEVRE, Superintendent, Respondent.

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

January 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Traub & Traub, P.C., New York City (Doris G. Traub, of counsel), for petitioner.

Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Marc Frazier Scholl, Thomas E. Bohan, Asst. Dist. Attys., of counsel), for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SPRIZZO, District Judge:

Petitioner Anthony Peterson brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988), challenging his state court conviction on rape, sodomy, robbery and kidnapping charges. Petitioner makes three claims: (1) that he was deprived of the right to testify on his own behalf by the state court's rulings on the admissibility of evidence of similar crimes for impeachment purposes...

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