Lloyd G. Ellis v. State of Maine

ALDRICH, Chief Judge..

This case is another all-too-frequent product of the erroneous view that if one alleges a loss of constitutional rights a full review of all state court convictions may be had for the asking —or, at least, that there is no harm in trying. We reiterate that we do not propose to overrule a district court’s denial of a certificate of probable cause for appeal, after ruling against the petitioner, unless there is affirmatively demonstrated to us that such cause in fact exists. Bernier v. Moore, 1 Cir., 1971, 441 F.2d 395; Aubut v. Maine, 1 Cir., 1970, 431 F.2d 688, 689. Nor…