Legal Opinion
Robert Victor Boyer v. Ernest S. Patton
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 20, 1978No. 77-2421PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.
Robert Boyer appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief, submitted on the ground that during his state trial for the crime of prison breach, his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to testimony elicited from a government witness regarding Boyer’s silence at the time of his arrest. Boyer is now represented by different counsel. The district court declined to accept a United States Magistrate’s recommendation that Boyer be granted the writ, finding instead that even if Boyer did not waive his…
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