Court Opinion

ID: 9452778
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:51:40.332455+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:21.227583
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McCREE, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent because Decker’s allegations present a substantial question of denial of effective assistance of counsel and we cannot determine whether they are true without an evidentiary hearing. Since he brands as false his testimony at the embezzlement trial, we cannot employ it to establish the falsity of his allegations in the petition before us. If petitioner wants to prove that his trial testimony was perjured at the direction of his counsel who was serving conflicting interests, we must afford him the opportunity under the teaching of Sanders v. United States, 373 U.S. 1, 83 S.Ct. 1068, 10 L.Ed.2d 148.
Although I concur in the opinion of the court in its disposition of the firearms case, I would reverse and remand for an evidentiary hearing on the alleged Sixth Amendment deprivation.