UNITED STATES EX REL. SMALL v. RUNDLE

No. 18386.

442 F.2d 235 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert John SMALL, Jr., H-5586, Appellant, v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Supt.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold J. Rosoff, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

David Richman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa. (James D. Crawford, Deputy Dist. Atty. for Law, Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HASTIE, Chief Judge, and FREEDMAN and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Chief Judge.

The district court has denied the petitioner, a state prisoner serving a sentence for sex offenses involving a seventeen year old girl, a writ of habeas corpus. On this appeal the petitioner contends that the record shows that he was denied the effective assistance of trial counsel.

Petitioner's assigned counsel also represented codefendants including Thomas Lare, at a single trial. It is argued that this...

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