Robert N. Pilgrim v. Maurice H. Sigler

Petitioner Robert N. Pilgrim, a Nebraska state prisoner, brings this in forma pauperis appeal from the federal district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He claims that his constitutional right to a fair trial was violated by the prosecuting attorney’s alleged misconduct in displaying inadmissible exhibits and adducing fingerprint testimony before the jury. The habeas court rejected the claim. We affirm.

Pilgrim was convicted by a jury on May 11, 1967, of the second-degree murder of his wife, and was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of sixteen years. He appealed…