PIANKHY v. CUYLER

No. 82-1504.

703 F.2d 728 (1983)

PIANKHY, Zuia, Appellant, v. CUYLER, Julius T. and Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania and District Attorney for Berks County, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheri Desaretz (argued), Desaretz & Cassidy, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Charles Guthrie (argued), Paula M. Szortyka, Asst. Dist. Atty., of Berks County, Reading, Pa., for appellees.

Before GIBBONS, HUNTER and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:

Zuia Piankhy appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of federal habeas corpus by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Piankhy sought relief from a state criminal conviction claiming, inter alia, that his sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to assistance of counsel had been unconstitutionally infringed. Because we find that Piankhy did not knowingly...

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