CLUTCHETTE v. RUSHEN

No. 84-2636.

770 F.2d 1469 (1985)

John Wesley CLUTCHETTE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ruth RUSHEN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert W. Brodie, Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Willard Jones, William George Prahl, Deputy Attys. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Before SNEED and BEEZER, Circuit Judges, and TAKASUGI, District Judge.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, John Wesley Clutchette, was convicted in state court of first degree murder on the basis of evidence that his wife obtained and then turned in to the police while she worked as an investigator for Clutchette's defense counsel. Clutchette appeals from the denial of his habeas corpus petition. He asserts that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. He also asserts...

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