United States First Circuit

A petition for habeas relief is denied, where: 1) the prisoner procedurally defaulted his ineffective assistance of counsel claims in state court; and 2) the prisoner did not demonstrate either good cause for or prejudice from the default, and could not rely on the alleged ineffectiveness of counsel as the cause of that procedural default.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2012
• Published 03/08/2012

Judges

• Lynch

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Apfel, Argie K. Shapiro