Robert Anderson v. Edward Alameida, Jr., Director, California Department of Corrections

OPINION

ROBERT E. JONES, District Judge:

Petitioner, Robert Andersen, appeared before a New Hampshire state court and waived extradition to California on an arrest warrant issued in an 8-year-old murder and robbery case. Later, as two San Francisco police inspectors drove him to Boston’s Logan International Airport, he confessed to the crimes.

On appeal from the denial of his habeas corpus writ, petitioner argues that his trial attorney’s failure to argue for the exclusion of his car-ride confession was a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §…