PELL, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976), the petitioner Clarence Rivers sought a writ of habeas corpus in the district court. The four claims of Rivers' amended petition alleged four procedural errors in Rivers' trial in state court: (1) that he was denied due process because of the trial court's failure to hold a post-trial hearing on his competence to have stood trial; (2) that he was in fact incompetent at trial; (3) that he was denied a post...
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