Legal Opinion
Brennan v. Blankenship
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided February 23, 1979No. Civ. A. 78-0037(R)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TURK, Chief Judge.
Gerald Francis Brennan seeks habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2254. Petitioner was convicted of two counts of malicious wounding in the Circuit Court for the County of Montgomery. He was sentenced to two thirteen year terms of imprisonment, to run consecutively. He now contends that these convictions are constitutionally infirm because of ineffective assistance of counsel. Brennan has previously asserted the identical claim in a habeas proceeding conducted in the Montgomery County Circuit Court. His petition was denied and this ruling was upheld on…
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