Legal Opinion
Agtas v. Whitley
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided June 17, 1986No. CV-R-85-558-ECRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
Petitioner, an inmate at the Nevada State Prison, has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He contends that his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated. Petitioner had been charged in State District Court for Douglas County with sexual assault and attempted sexual assault on a five-year old girl. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment and personally, as well as through his attorney, waived his right to a preliminary…
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