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New York Law Journal Featured Columnist February 27, 2008

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Second Circuit Review
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp

"Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, examine Ogunwomoju v. United States, in which the Second Circuit ruled for the first time that a petitioner being held in immigration detention or under an order of removal as a result of a state court conviction is not 'in custody' pursuant to the judgment of a state court for purposes of establishing jurisdiction to consider a habeas challenge to that conviction under 28 U.S.C. §2254."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).