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VEGA v. WALSH

Docket No. 10-2540-pr.

669 F.3d 123 (2012)

Henry VEGA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James WALSH, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 17, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Michael Lucente, Legal Aid Society, New York, New York, for Petitioner-Appellant.

William H. Branigan, Assistant District Attorney (John M. Castellano, Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), for Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Queens County, Kew Gardens, New York, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before: KEARSE, LEVAL, and CHIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner-appellant Henry Vega, convicted of, inter alia, murder in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 2002, appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Vega alleged that his rights were violated by the trial court's admission of (1) evidence of uncharged crimes and a tattoo featuring the word "Enforcer" and (2) the testimony of a medical examiner about an autopsy she had not performed...

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