Michael B. Selsor v. Stephen W. Kaiser

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant Michael B. Selsor appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of -habeas corpus. The judge rejected Selsor’s constitutional claim of denial of effective assistance of counsel where two public defenders were required by the state trial court to represent the interests of both Selsor and his codefendant Richard Dodson despite timely objections by the attorneys and Selsor that Dodson’s and Sel-sor’s interests conflicted. We disagree with the ruling below.

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FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On September 15,1975, a U-Tote-M store in Tulsa,…