United States Tenth Circuit

The judgment of the district court, granting petitioner conditional habeas relief, is reversed where defendant failed to establish that his trial counsel "made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2004
• Published 08/25/2004

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Brockman, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, (W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General, with him on the brief), Oklahoma City, OK, for the respondent-appellant., Fred L. Staggs, Oklahoma City, OK, for the petitioner-appellee.