Court of Appeals for the First Circuit December 7, 1984, 84-1266 (Charles Flynn v. Terrance Holbrook)

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Flynn appeals from the district court’s, 581 F.Supp. 990, denial of a writ of habeas corpus. He, with five co-defendants, was tried to a jury in the Rhode Island superior court, charged with a highly publicized armed robbery of a safe deposit vault. There had been no violence. Flynn and two others were convicted; the rest acquitted.