JOHNSON v. RIDDLE

Record No. 791122.

281 S.E.2d 843 (1981)

Thomas Alexander JOHNSON v. W. M. RIDDLE, Superintendent, etc.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin D. Miller, Alexandria, for appellant.

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


HARRISON, Justice.

Thomas Alexander Johnson, petitioner, seeks a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that his convictions of larceny and of the breaking and entering of a garage were the result of the improper exclusion of certain testimony and of ineffective assistance of counsel. Specifically, Johnson says he was denied the benefit of an available witness' exculpatory testimony when the trial court sustained an assertion by the witness of his Fifth Amendment right against...

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