Bruce Anderson v. Norman Butler

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Bruce Anderson, convicted in the Massachusetts superior court of first degree murder of his wife, petitioned for habeas corpus on the single ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). Failing, he appeals. He had failed previously, on a post-trial motion in the superior court, and, again, in the Supreme Judicial Court. Commonwealth v. Anderson, 398 Mass. 838, 501 N.E.2d 515 (1986).

There is no dispute as to the facts which, understandably, were presented more graphically at the…