Case Name: Donald G. SAGER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Manfred MAASS, Warden Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1996-06-03
Citations: 84 F.3d 1212
Docket Number: No. 95-35300
Parties: Donald G. SAGER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Manfred MAASS, Warden Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges, and LEGGE, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 84
Pages: 1212–1212

Head Matter:
Donald G. SAGER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Manfred MAASS, Warden Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellant.
No. 95-35300.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 6, 1996.
Decided June 3, 1996.
Michael D. Reynolds, Assistant Solicitor General, Salem, Oregon, for respondent-appellant.
Michael R. Levine, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, Oregon, for petitioner-appellee.
Before: GOODWIN and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges, and LEGGE, District Judge.
Honorable Charles A. Legge, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation,

Opinion:
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Manfred Maass ("the state") appeals an order granting Donald Sager a writ of habe-as corpus. The district court held that Sager had been denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We affirm the judgment substantially for the reasons given by the district court in its published memorandum, Sager v. Maass, 907 F.Supp. 1412 (D.Or.1995).