Legal Opinion
Moses Villot v. Benjamin Varner the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 30, 2004No. 01-1505PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
Moses Villot pled guilty to a general murder charge in exchange for an agreement by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania not to seek the death penalty. At the sentencing hearing in the Court of Com mon Pleas, Villot was found to have committed first degree murder and he was sentenced to life in prison. The present appeal is from the denial of Villot’s § 2254 petition for writ of habeas corpus, based on three claims that his plea counsel provided ineffective assistance. Villot had unsuccessfully urged one of these claims on direct appeal and all three of them in his…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. FinleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1988
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