Perry Bellamy v. William Cogdell, Warden, Brooklyn House of Detention

*303ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

We granted rehearing in banc to consider whether petitioner-appellant Perry Bellamy suffered a per se denial of his right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment. The parties were also invited to brief the application of Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288, 109 S.Ct. 1060, 103 L.Ed.2d 334 (1989) to this habeas corpus proceeding. These issues arise from Bellamy’s appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, (Reena Raggi, Judge), denying Bellamy’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988).

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