Shuman v. Wolff

HUG, Circuit Judge:

This appeal and cross-appeal concern the district court’s rulings on a petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 pertaining to two convictions for murder. 571 F.Supp. 213. There are two principal issues. The first concerns the validity of a 1958 conviction of murder that resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Shuman contends that the conviction was constitutionally infirm because a code-fendant’s confession was admitted in evidence and thus requires reversal under the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88…