Legal Opinion
Carlson v. Jess
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided September 4, 2007No. 06C0481PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LYNN ADELMAN, District Judge.
Petitioner Matthew S. Carlson, a Wisconsin state prisoner, seeks a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He challenges his 2002 conviction of first-degree sexual assault of a child, for which he was sentenced to fifty-five years in prison. Petitioner argues that the trial court’s denial of his motion to substitute counsel and for a continuance violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice and his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and that the state court of appeals’s affirmance of the trial court’s decision was…
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