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TUITT v. FAIR

No. 86-1808.

822 F.2d 166 (1987)

Michael C. TUITT, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Michael FAIR, Massachusetts Commissioner of Corrections, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Newman, by Appointment of the Court, with whom Lesser, Newman, Souweine & Nasser, Northampton, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Barbara A.H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Frederick W. Riley and Annette C. Benedetto, Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Michael C. Tuitt appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Arguing on appeal that the district court erred in withholding habeas relief, Tuitt emphasizes the following purported errors by the Massachusetts Superior Court that convicted him. He says the superior court infringed his Sixth...

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