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UNITED STATES EX REL. ORTIZ v. SIELAFF

No. 75-2038.

542 F.2d 377 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Salvador ORTIZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Allyn SIELAFF, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark K. Schoenfield, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Anne Taylor, Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, BAUER, Circuit Judge, and WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a dismissal by the district court of a petition for habeas corpus collaterally attacking a conviction for robbery after a bench trial in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The principal issue is whether the petitioner was denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel.

At trial, the petitioner, Salvador Ortiz, was represented by a retained lawyer. In that proceeding the...

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