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CROCKETT v. McCOTTER

No. 85-1312.

796 F.2d 787 (1986)

Joe Rollen CROCKETT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. O.L. McCOTTER, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cribbs & McFarland, Jay Francis Whittle, Jr. (Court appointed), Jeff Whittle, Arlington, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

Daniel Zemann, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before GEE, POLITZ and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Joe Rollen Crockett was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 by a Texas jury after he pleaded guilty to burglary. Crockett now appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he challenged his sentence, claiming that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because of his counsel's failure to object to the introduction of four prior convictions...

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