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HOUSE v. BALKCOM

No. 83-8368.

725 F.2d 608 (1984)

Jack Carlton HOUSE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles BALKCOM, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Myer, Atlanta, Ga., John Charles Boger, New York City, Anthony G. Amsterdam, New York University Law School, New York City, Seth P. Waxman, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-appellant.

Mary B. Westmoreland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before HENDERSON and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and JONES, Senior Circuit Judge.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

Jack Carlton House seeks reversal of the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254.1 House, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of two 7-year-old boys, asserts that he was denied effective assistance of counsel during all phases of his trial, and that the admission of his involuntarily given confession violated the fourteenth amendment. Based upon the totality...

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