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ARCHIE v. HOBBS

Civil Action No. 96-0469-R.

954 F.Supp. 1149 (1997)

Barbara Jo ARCHIE, Petitioner, v. Wendy HOBBS, Respondent.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Roanoke Division.

February 5, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Morchower, Morchower, Luxton & Whaley, Richmond, VA, for Barbara Jo Archie.

Linwood Theodore Wells, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Wendy Hobbs.

Memorandum Opinion

KISER, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Barbara Jo Archie, by counsel, has filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner contends that her criminal conviction for first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Giles County is constitutionally infirm because her attorney at trial rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in that he failed to investigate certain factual defenses or to present character...

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