Larry Lofton v. John P. Whitley, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1990-07-13

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PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: Lofton appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus, alleging that his conviction was improper because he was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal and because evidence admitted at trial was the fruit of an illegal seizure. I On March 1…

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