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UNITED STATES EX REL. SIMMONS v. ZIBILICH

No. 76-2522 Summary Calendar.

542 F.2d 259 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Mr. Robert J. ZIBILICH, Attorney at Law, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 11, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Edwards, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

C. Gordon Johnson, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before WISDOM, GEE and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a civil rights action by a convict against the court-appointed attorney who conducted his state court defense. We affirm.

In 1974, the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court convicted Plaintiff-Appellant Simmons of first degree murder. At the time, his attorney was Robert Zibilich, Defendant-Appellee in this case. Zibilich had made his services available to the court as a volunteer with the Orleans Parish...

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