Case Name: Joseph Martin GAINES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter KELLY, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1999-06-04
Citations: 180 F.3d 371
Docket Number: No. 96-2761
Parties: Joseph Martin GAINES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter KELLY, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before: CARDAMONE, JACOBS, Circuit Judges, CARMAN, Chief Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 180
Pages: 371–371

Head Matter:
Joseph Martin GAINES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter KELLY, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 96-2761.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
June 4, 1999.
Gail Jacobs, Great Neck, NY, for Appellant.
Thomas H. Brandt, Assistant District Attorney, Lockport, NY (Matthew J. Murphy, III, District Attorney for the County of Niagara, on the brief), for Appellee.
Before: CARDAMONE, JACOBS, Circuit Judges, CARMAN, Chief Judge.
The Honorable Gregory W. Carman, Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
ORDER
Joseph Martin Gaines appeals from the final judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York denying Gaines's petition for writ of habeas corpus and dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 action.
The judgment of the district court is hereby REVERSED on the ground that the state trial court's reasonable doubt instruction was constitutionally defective. An opinion further explaining the panel's reasons shall follow forthwith. This case is hereby REMANDED to the district court with instructions to grant Gaines's petition and to order Gaines's release from custody unless the State of New York provides him with a new trial within sixty (60) days of the date of entry of the district court's order.
The mandate shall issue immediately.