Desmond Walton v. Jacquelyn Banks

PER CURIAM: *

Pursuant to a grant of a certificate of appealability, Desmond D. Walton, Mississippi prisoner # 113961, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition on the issue whether the trial court’s refusal to suppress the videotape of his custodial statement warrants habeas relief. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s judgment.

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Walton was convicted by a jury of murdering drug dealer Patrick Anderson and was sentenced to life imprisonment. See Walton v. State, 998 So.2d 1011 (Miss.Ct. App.2007). His conviction was affirmed by the state supreme…