Robert Sawyer v. Robert H. Butler, Sr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Respondent

KING, Circuit Judge:

Robert Sawyer appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, and its concomitant entry of an order rescinding Sawyer’s stay of execution. On appeal, Sawyer argues that his conviction for first degree murder should be reversed both because he was denied effective assistance of counsel and because the state trial court, by failing to comply with a state law requiring that counsel assigned in a capital case must have been admitted to the bar for at least five years, violated Sawyer’s constitutional due pro*585cess and equal protection rights.…