District court’s denial of a petition for habeas relief from a conviction for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute is affirmed as the state court reasonably applied Strickland when it denied petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim regarding trial counsel based on the amended information. 

Read Northern v. Boatwright, No. 08-3272

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western Distirct of Wisconsin

Decided January 29, 2010

Judges

Before: Posner, and, Flaum,  Circuit Judges, and DerYeghiayan, District Judge

Opinion by Circuit Judge  Flaum

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