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KAPLAN v. BOMBARD

No. 19, Docket 77-2034.

573 F.2d 708 (1978)

George KAPLAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Roy BOMBARD, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Hyman, New York City (Kunstler & Hyman, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Richard H. Girgenti, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., and Peter L. Zimroth, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before MANSFIELD and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and DOOLING, District Judge.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal from an order entered in the Southern District of New York, Gerard L. Goettel, District Judge, 444 F.Supp. 233, which denied a state prisoner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the essential question presented is whether the district court correctly rejected petitioner's claim that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel as a result of his attorney...

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