Spillers v. Housewright

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this habeas corpus action, petitioner Larry Eugene Spillers contends the prosecutor’s breach of a pretrial agreement restricting the use of certain custodial statements in his state criminal trial denied him due process of law. Spillers also asserts the state trial court’s failure to ascertain the voluntariness of his statement renders the conviction constitutionally infirm. The district court1 2denied relief. We affirm.

In December of 1978 petitioner and one Tony Dean Walker were charged with kidnapping and battery in the first degree. The charges stemmed from…