PORCARO v. U.S.

No. 86-1889.

832 F.2d 208 (1987)

Peter J. PORCARO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Porcaro, pro se.

Frank L. McNamara, Jr., U.S. Atty. and Gary S. Katzmann, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., on brief for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COFFIN and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition was dismissed on its face. On appeal, we concluded that most of the petition had been properly dismissed, but that the petition and accompanying affidavit were minimally sufficient to state three particular claims and that hence further proceedings were required with respect to those three claims. Those claims were that petitioner had been denied the effective assistance of counsel by counsel's 1) refusal to...

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