O. D. Nickols v. John R. Gagnon

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

A Wisconsin jury found appellant guilty of murder. Counsel appointed to represent him on appeal advised the State Supreme Court that he could find no reversible error in the record and was permitted to withdraw; the conviction was affirmed. In collateral proceedings, State courts and the court below rejected appellant’s claim that he did not have the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment as interpreted in Anders v. California; 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493. His contention requires us to review the facts of this case, the…