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ALEXANDER v. STATE OF CONN.

No. 378, Docket 88-2318.

876 F.2d 277 (1989)

Wayne B. ALEXANDER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary D. Weinberger, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Hartford, Conn. (Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Public Defender, D. Connecticut, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

Susan C. Marks, Asst. State's Atty., Appellate Unit, Wallingford, Conn. (James A. Killen, Deputy Asst. State's Atty., Office of the Chief State's Atty., Wallingford, Conn., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, VAN GRAAFEILAND and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Wayne Alexander, who was convicted in 1980 in the Connecticut Superior Court of having murdered Vern Alan Cook, appeals the dismissal of his writ of habeas corpus in the District of Connecticut, Dorsey, J. Alexander claims that the police used his friend James Papagolas as their undisclosed implied agent to interrogate him in the absence of counsel about the location of Cook's body. Alexander, who was incarcerated on a charge of arson when...

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