Legal Opinion
Nickel v. Hannigan
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided November 10, 1994No. Civ. A. No. 93-3024-DESPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SAFFELS, Senior District Judge.
This matter is before the court on a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner, an inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, El Dorado, Kansas, was convicted of first degree murder on January 21, 1981, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed petitioner’s conviction and sentence on January 15, 1982.
In this action, petitioner challenges his conviction and claims he was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his attorney from prior occasions divulged…
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