Martin v. Warden, Virginia State Penitentiary

Opinion

BAKER, J.

Neal Bonney Martin, Jr. (petitioner) appeals from a judgment of the Norfolk Circuit Court (habeas court), which denied and dismissed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petition alleges that petitioner received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in a 1981 trial before a Norfolk Circuit Court. In that court, he was found guilty on each of five indictments charging that on December 18, 1980, he committed attempted rape, attempted forcible sodomy, statutory burglary, *8robbery and abduction with intent to defile. The trial court sentenced petitioner to a…