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BRYANT v. VOSE

No. 85-1671.

785 F.2d 364 (1986)

Clayton M. BRYANT, Petitioner, Appellant, v. George A. VOSE, Jr., Superintendent of Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miriam R. Goldstein, with whom Stephen A. Hopkins, and Robert V. Lizza, Sherburne, Powers & Needham, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for petitioner, appellant.

Barbara A.H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for respondent, appellee.

Before COFFIN and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, and ROSENN, Senior Circuit Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Clayton M. Bryant, asks us to reverse dismissal of his writ of habeas corpus. He claims two errors of constitutional dimension in his Massachusetts murder trial: admission of an involuntary oral confession made without the benefit of Miranda warnings, along with its "fruit", a subsequent written confession, and ineffective assistance of counsel. We reject both of these claims, and affirm dismissal of the writ.

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