Opinion
CIVIL ACTION NO. 02-10421-RWZ
January 28, 2003
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
Petitioner George Correia was convicted of 21 crimes stemming from a 1995 police chase incident. Before trial, the judge proposed to petitioner that if he entered a guilty plea, the sentence would be five to seven years in prison. After the jury convicted petitioner, however, he was sentenced to 12 to 17 years in prison on certain charges, plus a six-year term of imprisonment suspended with probation for five years on others. Petitioner seeks the writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the trial judge unconstitutionally punished him for exercising his right to a jury trial. The Massachusetts Appeals Court rejected this contention in Commonwealth v. Correia, 756 N.E.2d 1227, 2001 WL 1243524, at ***1 (Mass.App.Ct. 2001) (unpublished). The Appeals Court's decision did not "involve an unreasonable application of clearly established Federal law." 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1).
Accordingly, the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is denied.