SMITH v. ANDERSON

Civ. No. 79-70778.

505 F.Supp. 642 (1980)

Donald SMITH, Plaintiff, v. Charles ANDERSON, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

November 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Lawson, Southfield, Mich., for plaintiff.

Sherwin Vine, Asst. State's Atty. Gen., Detroit, Mich., for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

COHN, District Judge.

I.

A.

Before the Court is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claiming a deprivation of a Sixth Amendment right to counsel because of the forced joint representation of petitioner and a codefendant by the same lawyer in a June, 1971 jury trial in the Recorder's Court of the City of Detroit. Petitioner also claims a Sixth and Fourteenth...

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