DENTON v. RICKETTS

No. 82-1962.

728 F.2d 489 (1984)

Vincent Albert DENTON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. James G. RICKETTS and J.D. MacFarlane, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan B. Coats, Chief, Crim. Appeals Unit, Enforcement Section, Denver, Colo. (J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Joel W. Cantrick, Sol. Gen., Denver, Colo., with him on brief), for respondents-appellants.

Vicki Mandell-King, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Denver, Colo. (Michael G. Katz, Federal Public Defender, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for petitioner-appellee.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and McWILLIAMS and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Vincent Denton, an inmate in the Colorado State Penitentiary, filed, pro se, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, challenging his confinement. The gravamen of the petition was that Denton had been denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel in the state trial proceedings which resulted in his conviction...

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