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HOOTS v. ALLSBROOK

No. 84-6724.

785 F.2d 1214 (1986)

Richard Anthony HOOTS, Appellant, v. Harry ALLSBROOK; Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, Rufus L. Edmisten, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Boyan (Boyan, Nix & Boyan, High Point, N.C., on brief), for appellant.

Barry S. McNeill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Richard Hoots was convicted by a jury of armed robbery, and sentenced by a North Carolina state court to forty years imprisonment. Following exhaustion of direct appeal and post-conviction state remedies, Hoots filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court, claiming that he was deprived of his sixth amendment right to counsel because of ineffective assistance of counsel. The district court denied the...

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