GILDAY v. SCAFATI

No. 7527.

428 F.2d 1027 (1970)

William M. GILDAY, Jr., Petitioner, Appellant, v. Palmer C. SCAFATI, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Featherston, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Daniel Klubock, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.

Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., John J. Irwin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Criminal Division, and Lawrence P. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., were on brief for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner was tried and convicted of armed robbery in the Superior Court of Massachusetts in March 1964 and is presently serving his sentence of 15-25 years. During that trial, after petitioner had testified on his own behalf, the prosecutor offered evidence of five prior convictions to impeach petitioner's credibility, three of which were the product of trials where petitioner neither had nor waived the assistance of legal counsel. Petitioner...

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