DUFFIELD v. PEYTON

No. 9786.

352 F.2d 802 (1965)

Loren Neal DUFFIELD, Appellant, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. C. Taylor, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel) [Simpkins, McCaul & Pearsall, Richmond, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Virginia (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, BELL, Circuit Judge, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from a denial by the district court of a writ of habeas corpus to the petitioner who has been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The petition raises nonfrivolous questions of constituional dimensions involving unreasonable search and seizure; the admission of a confession alleged to be involuntarily obtained; and the absence of effective counsel at critical stages in the petitioner's trial. The record shows...

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