Legal Opinion
McDougall v. Rice
District Court, W.D. North Carolina
Decided April 27, 1988No. C-C-87-114-PPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
ROBERT D. POTTER, Chief Judge.
On March 9, 1987, Michael Van McDougall (Petitioner), a North Carolina prisoner, filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 attacking the constitutionality of his 1980 convictions for felonious assault, kidnapping, and first degree murder, and of the sentence of death that was imposed for the murder conviction. Specifically, McDougall alleged:
1. That he was denied the effective assistance of counsel at trial and at sentencing because:
a. Lead counsel, in the six months prior to trial, had been the subject of…
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