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SCOGGINS v. HALL

No. 12-2338.

765 F.3d 53 (2014)

Allen SCOGGINS, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Timothy HALL, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 26, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan D. Campbell , for appellant.

Annette C. Benedetto , Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Martha Coakley , Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Allen Scoggins was convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 and is currently serving a life sentence in a Massachusetts prison. He filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, seeking to invalidate his conviction on the ground that his court-appointed attorney provided ineffective assistance by forgoing the opportunity to interview a prosecution witness, Barbara Holbrook, before trial, and declining to interview...

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