Ahlswede v. Wolff

720 F.2d 1108 Herbert F. AHLSWEDE, Clark County Deputy Public Defender, on relation of Henry Deutscher, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles WOLFF, Director, Department of Prisons, and Robert Lippold, Superintendent, Maximum Security Prison, Respondents-Appellees. No. 82-5831. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Sept. 16, 1983. Decided Nov. 22, 1983. David J. Burman, Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, Seattle, Wash., for petitioner-appellant. Bruce Scott Dickinson, Las Vegas, Nev., for respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Before CHOY and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and NIELSEN, * District Judge. PER CURIAM: 1 Henry Deutscher was convicted of murder and robbery in Nevada state court. His conviction was affirmed on appeal. Deutscher v. State, 95 Nev. 669 , 601 P.2d 407 (1979). Deutscher now appeals the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief. 2 Deutscher changed lawyers between the time the district court denied habeas relief and the time this appeal was filed. The new lawyers would have us remand the case pending a determination by the state courts of other issues they are now…