United States First Circuit

Rejection of ineffective assistance of counsel claim did not represent an unreasonable application of federal law, where defense counsel was independently able to call into question witness' credibility, despite erroneously omitting evidence of her criminal history.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/28/2002
• Published 06/28/2002

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Salsberg, with whom Michael R. Schneider and Salsberg & Schneider were on brief, for appellant/cross-appellee., William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellee/cross-appellant.