FARMER, Judge.
A prisoner serving a life sentence for his conviction of first degree murder challenges in a collateral attack the effectiveness of his trial counsel. He contends in part that his lawyer failed to call two witnesses who would have testified that a codefendant actually did the killing and coerced him to assist in covering-up the crime. His lawyer, he adds, told him that he could call the witnesses, both of whom had records, at a new trial after a reversal...
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