Legal Opinion
Ted Lane Sampley v. Attorney General of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 10, 1986No. 84-6397PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
Sampley appeals from the dismissal by the district court of his petition for habeas corpus in which he claimed that a state court’s refusal to grant a continuance of his trial deprived him of his sixth amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel. We conclude that the district court properly determined that Sampley’s sixth amendment right was not violated, and we therefore affirm.
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In June 1981, Sampley had an altercation with several police officers in the New Hanover County, North Carolina, courthouse following dismissal of a criminal case in…
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