Fred Cockerham v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

Fred Cockerham, convicted in a Florida court of the offense of breaking and entering with intent to commit grand lar-cency, was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months. In his petition for Federal habeas corpus relief, he argued that the prosecution failed to prove he freely and voluntarily consented to a search leading to the discovery of incriminating evidence in his automobile trunk and that the evidence therefore should have been excluded.1 The District Court rejected this contention, and we affirm.

Nothing in the record suggests that petitioner’s consent was coerced or involuntary.…