JACOBS, Circuit Judge: Dale Tippins petitioned for a writ of habe-as corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , on the ground that his lawyer slept during Tip-pins’ criminal trial. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Keenan, J.) granted the petition, holding that counsel was ineffective <e…
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