Logsden v. Rose

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Petitioner, Joseph Logsden, was sentenced to life imprisonment for armed robbery after his conviction by a jury in the Criminal Court of Knox County. He contends in his petition for a writ of habeas corpus that he is in state custody in violation of his federal constitutional rights because he was not accorded a full and meaningful review of his conviction. Viewed liberally, the petition alleges two grounds in support of this contention: (1) Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment rights because his court-appointed counsel failed to petition…