Chavez v. Craven

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided July 8, 1970.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1970-07-08

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1975

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1970-07-08

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¶1William S. Clark (argued), San Francisco, Cal., Ruben P. Chavez (pro se) Represa, Cal., for appellant.

¶2Mark W. Jordan (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen., Wm. E. James, Asst. Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

¶3Before CHAMBERS and TRASK, Circuit Judges, and PLUMMER, District Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM:

¶5The order denying habeas corpus relief on a state conviction is affirmed.

¶6In our view, before we consider whether counsel was ineffective in not seeking a hearing in the California Supreme Court (such a hearing being discretionary with that court), Chavez should show a federal court that he had a point of real substance which was lost. We cannot find it.