Legal Opinion
Victor Colon v. Walter Fogg, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 1, 1979No. 1072, Docket 79-2036PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
Victor Colon appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered on February 23, 1979, after an evidentiary hearing before Gerard L. Goettel, Judge, dismissing Colon’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Appellant’s sole claim on appeal is that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at his state trial because he and his co-defendant were jointly represented by the same counsel. We agree and reverse.
Colon and his co-defendant, Mariano Salomon, were convicted in June, 1974, in…
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