Legal Opinion
Leonard Ray Blanton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1996No. 95-6141PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-Appellant Leonard Ray Blanton appeals the district court’s order denying his petition for a writ of error coram nobis to vacate his convictions for violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 1951. Blanton asserts that he is entitled to the writ because his counsel at trial was not properly licensed to practice law in Tennessee, and thus provided ineffective assistance of counsel per se. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
I. Background
Blanton was the governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979. In 1980, Blanton and two of his aides…
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