Legal Opinion
David Goins v. Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 28, 1986No. 84-2941PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
The primary question presented in this appeal is whether the failure of petitioner’s counsel to move to quash the arrest of petitioner constituted ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. The district court concluded that it did not and denied the petition for federal habeascorpus relief. For the reasons stated below, we will affirm.
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3Cited by20 opinions
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