FLYNN v. HOLBROOK

No. 84-1266.

749 F.2d 961 (1984)

Charles FLYNN, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Terrance HOLBROOK, et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry P. Wilson, Boston, Mass., for petitioner, appellant.

John A. Murphy, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., with whom Dennis J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., Providence, R.I., was on brief, for respondents, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH and COWEN, Senior Circuit Judges.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Flynn appeals from the district court's, 581 F.Supp. 990, denial of a writ of habeas corpus. He, with five co-defendants, was tried to a jury in the Rhode Island superior court, charged with a highly publicized armed robbery of a safe deposit vault. There had been no violence. Flynn and two others were convicted; the rest acquitted. The convicted defendants appealed, unsuccessfully...

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