Kenneth W. Cranford v. Felix Rodriguez, Warden

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from a denial of petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, he challenges the validity of a confession which was taken in Juarez, Mexico by a New Mexico officer. (He claims that it was coerced and in violation of the rule of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966).) He also questions the sufficiency of the hearing which was given on the question of voluntariness of the confession in state trial court. He further contends that the federal district court erred in failing to hold an evidentiary hearing and…