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HYDE v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 13430.

435 F.2d 710 (1970)

John Nikolas HYDE, Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan J. Karlin, Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Maryland (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

John Nikolas Hyde appeals the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He was convicted of murder in the first degree on May 16, 1961, and is presently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. The sole issue before us is whether certain incriminating oral statements and an unsigned handwritten confession should have been excluded from evidence at trial because unlawfully coerced...

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