UNITED STATES EX REL. GALLAGHER v. BRIERLEY

Misc. No. 3683.

286 F.Supp. 773 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George T. GALLAGHER v. Joseph R. BRIERLEY, Superintendent.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Shapiro, Philadelphia, Pa., court-appointed, for relator.

Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Welsh S. White, Asst. Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Relator is currently serving a life term imposed on November 17, 1947, arising from a first degree murder conviction. He now, having exhausted his state remedies, attacks the validity of this conviction by federal habeas corpus.

He alleges three grounds in support of his petition.

1. That his confession was involuntary and therefore its introduction into evidence at trial denied him...

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