Charles Flynn v. Terrance Holbrook

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Flynn appeals from the district court’s, 581 F.Supp. 990, denial of a writ of habeas corpus. He, with five co-defendants, was tried to a jury in the Rhode Island superior court, charged with a highly publicized armed robbery of a safe deposit vault. There had been no violence. Flynn and two others were convicted; the rest acquitted. The convicted defendants appealed, unsuccessfully raising the points now presented. Flynn, alone, sought habe-as corpus, again without success. We reverse.

From the start of the trial defendants were brought to court…