SPILLERS v. HOUSEWRIGHT

No. 82-1279.

692 F.2d 524 (1982)

Larry Eugene SPILLERS, Appellant, v. Vernon HOUSEWRIGHT, Commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Correction; James Steed, Sheriff of Saline County, Arkansas; Steve Clark, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Dennis R. Molock, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

A. Wayne Davis, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, and STEPHENSON and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judges.


HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this habeas corpus action, petitioner Larry Eugene Spillers contends the prosecutor's breach of a pretrial agreement restricting the use of certain custodial statements in his state criminal trial denied him due process of law. Spillers also asserts the state trial court's failure to ascertain the voluntariness of his statement renders the conviction constitutionally infirm. The district court1 denied relief...

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