WRIGHT v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 72-1475.

483 F.2d 405 (1973)

Nat Villiam WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA and David Henry, Warden, State's Prison, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Lalley and John Greenhaugh, Third Year Students (Daniel H. Pollitt, Chapel Hill, N. C. [court-appointed counsel], on brief), for appellant.

Jacob L. Safron, Asst. Atty. Gen. of N. C. (Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, and BLAIR, District Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

In this habeas proceeding, a North Carolina prisoner, convicted of rape,1 challenges the constitutional admissibility of an inculpatory statement secured from him shortly after his arrest. There is no dispute that the petitioner was given a warning — in fact, two warnings — before his statement was taken. It is the petitioner's contention that...

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