PER CURIAM:
Edwin Almestica, an 18-year old former drug addict, appeals from a judgment of conviction for armed robbery entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, after a plea of guilty before Judge Thomas C. Platt, Jr. Almestica claims that he was deprived of his constitutional right to effective counsel at the sentencing proceeding, because his assigned lawyer refused to defend him and instead supported the prosecutor's position...
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