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UNITED STATES EX REL. WALTERS v. REINCKE

No. 130, Docket 34031.

435 F.2d 149 (1970)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Wallace Mack WALTERS, Relator-Appellant, v. Frederick REINCKE, Warden, Connecticut State Prison, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin L. Wulf, New York City (Jerome E. Caplan, Hartford, Conn. on the brief), for relator-appellant.

Arlen D. Nickowitz, Asst. State's Atty. (Joseph T. Gormley, Jr., State's Atty., for Fairfield County, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge and SMITH and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

We affirm the order of the district court of June 24, 1969 which dismissed the petition of Wallace Mack Walters for a writ of habeas corpus for the reasons stated in Judge Blumenfeld's opinion.

Walters was convicted of first degree murder in the Superior Court of Connecticut for Fairfield County on June 26, 1956 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He challenges the constitutionality of his state murder conviction on the ground that a written exculpatory...

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