Keith Dean and Cornelius Harper, Petitioners-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. Jack Duckworth, Respondent-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

MAROVITZ, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court, 559 F.Supp. 1331, granting Dean and Harper’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court held that petitioners received ineffective assistance of counsel caused by a conflict of interest on the part of their defense counsel. After a careful review of the record, we reverse.

During the early morning hours on September 13, 1977, Lannon Sulkko, a 29-year-old white woman, was abducted from her driveway at gunpoint by two black males. She was driven some distance from her home and then raped in the…