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CAHILL v. RUSHEN

No. 81-4009.

678 F.2d 791 (1982)

James Thomas CAHILL, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Ruth RUSHEN, Director, California Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shirley A. Nelson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for respondent-appellant.

Mark L. Christiansen, Deputy State Public Defender, Sacramento, Cal., for petitioner-appellee.

Before WALLACE and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, District Judge.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Appellee James Cahill was convicted of first degree murder in California state court in February 1975, after a trial in which his confession to a police officer was admitted into evidence. After exhausting available state remedies, Cahill petitioned the court below for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court granted the writ on the ground that the State had interfered with Cahill's sixth amendment right to...

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