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SOTELO v. INDIANA STATE PRISON

No. 87-2191.

850 F.2d 1244 (1988)

Raul Rudy SOTELO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. INDIANA STATE PRISON and Linley E. Pearson, Attorney General of the State of Indiana, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nick J. Thiros, Mark A. Thiros, Cohen & Thiros, Merrillville, Ind., for petitioner-appellant.

David A. Arthur, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for respondents-appellees.

Before CUDAHY, EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Raul Rudy Sotelo was convicted by a state court jury in Indiana of the first degree murder of a young girl, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals the district court's denial of his writ of habeas corpus, contending that his confession was involuntary and that he was denied effective assistance of counsel during the state court trial. We affirm the district court on the issue of the voluntariness of Sotelo's confession. We do not...

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