Legal Opinion
Rivera v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 9, 2018No. 16-2167PPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Eber Rivera appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Rivera was convicted in Massachusetts state court after a jury trial on charges arising from the stabbing of Robert Williams during an altercation between the two men. Rivera contends that his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel: (1) did not move to suppress incul-patory statements he made in response to questions from a police officer while in custody; and (2) failed to introduce at trial…
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