Legal Opinion
Holland v. Boles
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided December 16, 1963No. Civ. A. 1245-WPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES F. PAUL, Chief Judge.
Richard Holland is serving a life sentence, imposed in 1952, for murder. He complains that he did not enjoy his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel in the proceedings leading up to his conviction and sentence, because his lawyer was serving conflicting interests and could not and did not give his undivided loyalty to Holland’s case.
Holland made, the same contention in habeas corpus procedings before a State court in 1957. At the conclusion of a plenary evidentiary hearing, his claim was denied. Finding that that hearing was a full and fair…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Robert Louis Porter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by14 opinions
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