GEE, Circuit Judge:
Gilbert Gomez, formerly a prisoner in state custody, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the federal district court on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. The district court granted the writ on a finding that petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment by counsel's failure to call as a trial witness a co-defendant and by counsel's failure to request a jury instruction that the government...
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