THOMAS v. COX

No. 82-6614.

708 F.2d 132 (1983)

B. Frank THOMAS, Appellant, v. J.D. COX, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1983.

Certiorari Denied October 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving M. Blank, Richmond, Va. (Paul, Smith & Blank, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


Certiorari Denied October 17, 1983. See 104 S.Ct. 284.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question whether incriminating statements made by a pretrial prison detainee to a fellow prison inmate who had initiated contacts with the police and been advised by them to listen for but not elicit information were unconstitutionally admitted in the detainee's state criminal trial in violation of his sixth amendment rights to counsel as...

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