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KNIGHT v. JOHNSON

No. 82-6238.

699 F.2d 162 (1983)

Bronson Howard KNIGHT, Appellee, v. Gene JOHNSON, the Honorable J. Marshall Coleman, Attorney General of Commonwealth, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Kathleen S. Mehfoud, Richmond, Va. (Lacy & Mehfoud, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

The warden of a Virginia prison appeals from an order granting a writ of habeas corpus to Bronson Howard Knight, who had been convicted of burglary and larceny. The district court held that the procedure followed by the state court invalidated Knight's pleas of guilty and denied him the right to effective counsel. Knight v. Johnson, 529 F.Supp. 1309 (E.D.Va.1982). We reverse because we conclude...

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