Perry March v. Gerald McAllister

DAMON J. KEITH, Circuit Judge.

On August 17, 2006, in the Criminal Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, Perry A. March was convicted of murdering his wife Janet nearly a decade prior. In this habeas appeal, Petitioner March, initially proceeding pro se, and later retaining counsel, makes three challenges to the admission of certain of his incriminating statements on grounds that they were obtained in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. On two of his three claims, we assume without deciding the existence of constitutional error, only to conclude that in light of the significant…