Carlson Tanner, Jr. v. Leon Vincent, Warden of Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York,respondent-Appellee

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

On March 15, 1968 George Blum, a New York City taxi driver, was shot and killed in Queens County, New York during the course of a robbery in his cab. Later the same day appellant was arrested in his apartment at the Hotel Holland in Manhattan by three detectives of the New York City Police Department and questioned about his participation in this crime after first being given certain warnings in attempted compliance with Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The interrogation continued as appellant was driven in a police car to the…