United States ex rel. Jackson v. Follette

OPINION

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, serving concurrent sentences of eight and a half to ten years for felonious sales of narcotics,1 imposed as a second offender under a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict in the Supreme Court, Bronx County, seeks his release under a federal writ of habeas corpus. He charges that the judgment of conviction is constitutionally void in that he was denied (1) a reasonable opportunity to obtain counsel of his own choice; (2) effective representation by assigned counsel, and (3) the right to conduct his own defense. While in some respects…