UNITED STATES v. DeYOUNG

No. 75-1378.

523 F.2d 807 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Maria HORTA, Appellant, v. John DeYOUNG, Warden Passaic County Jail, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided October 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Defender, Randall W. Westreich, Asst. Deputy Public Defender, East Orange, N. J., for appellant.

William F. Hyland, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Trenton, N. J., Howard Alan Cohen, Joseph J. Rodgers, Deputy Attys. Gen., Div. of Crim. Justice, Appellate Section, East Orange, N. J., for appellees.

Before ALDISERT, GIBBONS and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing, without an evidentiary hearing, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner Maria Horta contends that at her trial in Superior Court, Passaic County, New Jersey, she was denied the sixth amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel because she and her co-defendants, Angel Horta (her husband) and Roberto Rosado (her son-in-law), were represented by a single retained...

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