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BRENNAN v. BLANKENSHIP

Civ. A. No. 78-0037(R).

472 F.Supp. 149 (1979)

Gerald Francis BRENNAN, Petitioner, v. W. D. BLANKENSHIP, Superintendent of the Bland Correctional Center and Marshall Coleman, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia, Respondents.

United States District Court, W. D. Virginia.

February 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Krasnow, Roanoke, Va., for petitioner.

Robert Herring, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for respondents.

OPINION

TURK, Chief Judge.

Gerald Francis Brennan seeks habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2254. Petitioner was convicted of two counts of malicious wounding in the Circuit Court for the County of Montgomery. He was sentenced to two thirteen year terms of imprisonment, to run consecutively. He now contends that these convictions are constitutionally infirm because of ineffective assistance of counsel. Brennan has previously asserted...

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