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U.S. v. NOVAK

No. 671, Docket 89-1437.

903 F.2d 883 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee, v. John NOVAK, Petitioner-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Terwilliger, III, U.S. Atty., D. Vt., Burlington, Vt. (David V. Kirby, Chief, Crim. Div., R. Jeffrey Behm, Asst. U.S. Atty., Burlington, Vt., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Joseph K. Garneau, West Hempstead, N.Y., for petitioner-appellant.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, and KEARSE, and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner John Novak appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, James S. Holden, Judge, dismissing his petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1982) for vacation of his conviction in that court of narcotics offenses on the ground that his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was violated because his now-disbarred trial attorney, Joel Barnet Steinberg, had obtained...

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