Legal Opinion
Wood v. Zahradnick
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided August 17, 1979No. Civ. A. No. CA75-0444-RPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
MERHIGE, District Judge.
Respondent, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, has filed a Rule 59(e), F.R.Civ.P. motion to alter or amend this Court’s July 9,1979 judgment granting petitioner Cecil Wood, Jr.’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner has responded to respondent’s motion, and the matter is ripe for disposition.
In a previous opinion, filed March 29, 1977, this Court had held that, at and prior to his criminal trial in the Circuit Court of Nansemond County, Virginia, petitioner *557had been denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.…
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