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SAMPLEY v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 84-6397.

786 F.2d 610 (1986)

Ted Lane SAMPLEY, Appellant, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NORTH CAROLINA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce H. Jackson, Jr. (W.G. Smith, Wilmington, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Barry S. McNeill, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Richard N. League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Sampley appeals from the dismissal by the district court of his petition for habeas corpus in which he claimed that a state court's refusal to grant a continuance of his trial deprived him of his sixth amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel. We conclude that the district court properly determined that Sampley's sixth amendment right was not violated, and we therefore affirm.

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