TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
The primary issue raised on this appeal from the denial of a state prisoner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is whether the district court should have held a hearing on the issue of the voluntariness of petitioner's confession of nine years ago, although counsel at his state murder trial not only failed to object to the confession on grounds of involuntariness but made affirmative use of it to negate lack of intent to kill, leading to...
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