David Ashford v. Lonnie E. Edwards Attorney General for the Eastern District of North Carolina

HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

In a state court in North Carolina, Ash-ford was convicted on two counts of attempted armed robbery. Two concurrent sentences were imposed. After a direct appeal and resort to state post conviction remedies proved unavailing, Ashford sought federal habeas corpus relief, claiming that conviction on the two counts violated the federal double jeopardy clause.

A judge of this court issued a certificate of probable cause for Ashford’s appeal from the district court’s denial of relief.

We now affirm.

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