Legal Opinion
Benoit v. Bock
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided January 9, 2003No. 00-10191-BCPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER CONDITIONALLY GRANTING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
LAWSON, District Judge.
Before the Court is the pro se petition of William Benoit, presently an inmate at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer, Michigan, for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petitioner alleges that his appellate counsel was ineffective when he permitted the petitioner’s appeal of right to be involuntarily dismissed, apparently because of the petitioner’s inability to pay for counsel’s services on appeal. The Court agrees that the petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment…
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