Legal Opinion
McElrath v. Simpson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 12, 2010No. 07-5505PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Treon McElrath, a state prisoner in Kentucky, appeals from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted, along with codefendants Terrance Boykin and Andra Everett, of one count of complicity to murder and six counts of complicity to wanton endangerment arising out of a shooting that occurred on June 21, 1998. McElrath, who was represented at trial and on appeal by the same attorney as Boykin, maintains that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth…
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