UNITED STATES EX REL. McMATH v. PATE

No. 18059.

435 F.2d 174 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Golden McMATH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Frank J. PATE, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

November 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Howell, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Thomas J. Immel, Morton E. Friedman, Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge, and KILEY, Circuit Judge.


KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal has been taken from denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus in which Relator, Golden McMath, alleged that his conviction was based on admission into evidence of involuntary confessions. The events with which we are concerned occurred in 1955 long prior to the more stringent standards established by Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964, 378 U.S. 478, 84 S.Ct. 1758, 12 L.Ed.2d 977, and Miranda v....

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