LYNCH v. FICCO

No. 05-2183.

438 F.3d 35 (2006)

Edward H. LYNCH Jr., Petitioner, Appellant, v. Edward FICCO, Superintendent of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center; Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emanuel Howard for appellant.

Eva M. Badway, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Bureau, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court, Edward H. Lynch Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He appealed, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) affirmed his conviction and affirmed the denial of various post-trial motions. See Commonwealth v. Lynch, 439 Mass. 532, 789 N.E.2d 1052, 1062 (2003), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1059, 124 S...

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