BASTIDAS v. HENDERSON

No. 86 CV 4194.

664 F.Supp. 51 (1987)

Pedro BASTIDAS, Petitioner, v. Robert J. HENDERSON, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility; Elizabeth Holtzman, District Attorney, Kings County; and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

July 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip L. Weinstein, Attorney-in-Charge, The Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau, New York City by Abigail Everett, Sr. Supervising Atty., for petitioner.

Elizabeth Holtzman, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. by Steven H. Kessler, Asst. Dist. Atty., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PLATT, District Judge.

Petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree and robbery in the first and second degrees for his participation as the driver of the getaway car used in a robbery in which the victim was killed. In his application for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, petitioner asserts that his confession should have been suppressed because it was the involuntary product of police coercion. For the reasons...

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