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SAWYER v. BROUGH

No. 10145.

358 F.2d 70 (1966)

Norfleet SAWYER, Appellant, v. Franklin K. BROUGH, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Beall, Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel) for appellant.

Fred Oken, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges, and MICHIE, District Judge.

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

Norfleet Sawyer is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon. On this appeal from the District Court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus,1 he presses only one of the constitutional challenges to his conviction which he raised before the lower court. He contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel2 in the proceedings...

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