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SMITH v. THOMPSON

Record No. 0570-85.

339 S.E.2d 556 (1986)

Preston SMITH, Jr. v. C. E. THOMPSON, Warden.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Decided February 4, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sa'ad El-Amin, Richmond, for appellant.

Eugene Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (William G. Broaddus, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: BAKER, BARROW and HODGES, JJ.

HODGES, Judge.

Preston Smith, Jr., an inmate in the Virginia correctional system, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of the City of Newport News alleging that he was being detained because of ineffective assistance of counsel during his trial on charges of robbery and the use of a firearm in the commission of the crime of robbery. The respondent filed a motion to dismiss which the habeas court granted without evidentiary hearing. In...

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