Rickman v. Bell, No. 94-5721 (6th Cir.) (131 F.3d 1150) (December 2, 1997) (Judge James L. Ryan)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
February 02, 1998
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Strickland Standard.
Two weeks ago we noted a case, Groseclose v. Bell, 130 F.3d 1161 (6th Cir. 1997), in which the Sixth
Circuit vacated a 20-year old murder conviction on the grounds that the attorney who had been appointed
by a Tennessee state court to represent a defendant in a capital …
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