Per Curiam. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that respondent Joseph Van Patten was entitled to relief under *121 28 U. S. C. § 2254 , reasoning that his lawyer’s assistance was presumptively ineffective owing to his participation in a plea hearing by speakerphone. V…
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