Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting.
This petition seeks review of the Second Circuit's minimum standard of competence for an attorney to satisfy the Sixth Amendment's requirement that a defendant receive effective assistance of counsel. More than 30 years ago, the Second Circuit formulated what has become known as the "farce and mockery" test: "A lack of effective assistance of counsel must be of such a kind as to shock the conscience of the Court...
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