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LEFKOWITZ v. FAIR

Nos. 86-1723, 86-1962.

816 F.2d 17 (1987)

Alan LEFKOWITZ, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Michael FAIR, Commissioner, Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents, Appellees. Arif HUSSAIN, et al., Petitioners, Appellees, v. Michael FAIR, etc., et al., Respondents, Appellees, Alan Lefkowitz, Petitioner, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail S. Strassfeld, Boston, Mass., with whom Silverglate, Gertner, Fine, Good & Mizner, Boston, Mass. was on brief, for petitioner, appellant.

Paula J. DeGiacomo, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for respondents, appellees.

Before BOWNES and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Alan Lefkowitz, M.D., petitioner-appellant, asks us to review orders of two different judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the net effect of which was to frustrate his belated attempt to have a state conviction screened by means of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241-54, for federal constitutional error. Having surveyed the scene, we affirm the judgments entered below.

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