Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Lumpkin
District Court, S.D. California
Decided February 25, 1987No. Civ. No. 77-0440-RPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
RHOADES, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
This case is on remand from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision Johnson v. Lumpkin, 769 F.2d 630 (1985). The issue presented on remand is whether Petitioner Ronald Johnson was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel.
Johnson was convicted of breaking and entering and larceny in a Michigan state court in 1970. This conviction was affirmed by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The Michigan Supreme Court initially denied Johnson’s application to appeal. Three weeks later, in an uncommon…
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