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HENNESSEY v. ZIMMERMAN

Civ. A. No. 84-6225.

645 F.Supp. 472 (1986)

Joseph M. HENNESSEY v. Charles H. ZIMMERMAN, S.C.I.G. Superintendent and Leroy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General of Pa.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela P. Cohen, Swenson & Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

Robert E. Goldman, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Doylestown, Pa., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SHAPIRO, District Judge.

This is an action brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by petitioner, Joseph M. Hennessey, a state prisoner incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pennsylvania, who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment imposed following his conviction for the first degree murder of Bensalem Police Officer James Armstrong. Petitioner claims that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective...

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