United States First Circuit

Denial of habeus corpus relief by district court is affirmed where the state court reasonably concluded: 1) plaintiff's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was not violated because he made a knowing and intelligent waiver of counsel's conflict of interest; 2) plaintiff cannot satisfy standards set forth in Strickland and adequately prove constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel; and 3) plaintiff right to due process was not violated as he was determined to be competent a week before the trial and no evidence was brought to light indicating the competency determination needed to be revisited.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/19/2009
• Published 02/19/2009

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, SELYA, Circuit Judges, and DOMÍNGUEZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chauncey B. Wood, with whom Wood & Nathanson, LLP, was on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David T. Huang, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief for appellee.