Joseph Salazar, Jr. v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex

MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a denial of petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus after a full evidentiary hearing. In the federal habeas proceedings, Judge Van Pelt appointed counsel for petitioner. Petitioner testified and was permitted to offer all the testimony he desired and announced to the court at the conclusion that he was satisfied with counsel.

We would ordinarily give this case summary treatment, but petitioner refused counsel in the state trial, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Petitioner has raised…