Norfleet Sawyer v. Franklin K. Brough, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:

Norfleet Sawyer is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence for robbery with a deadly weapon. On this appeal from the District Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 1 he presses only one of the constitutional challenges to his conviction which he raised before the lower court. He contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel 2 in the proceedings which led to his conviction in the Maryland court by reason of the fact that both he and his codefendant, whose interests conflicted with his own, were represented at their joint…