George Kaplan v. Roy Bombard, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal from an order entered in the Southern District of New York, Gerard L. Goettel, District Judge, 444 F.Supp. 233, which denied a state prisoner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the essential question presented is whether the district court correctly rejected petitioner’s claim that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel as a result of his attorney’s joint representation of petitioner and two co-defendants at their state court trial which resulted in the conviction of petitioner of second degree arson. We affirm.