Wayne B. Alexander v. State of Connecticut

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

As instructed by the Supreme Court in Meachum v. Alexander, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 2607, 110 L.Ed.2d 628 (1990) we reconsider, in light of Illinois v. Perkins, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 2394, 110 L.Ed.2d 243 (1990), decided one week earlier, Alexander’s appeal from the denial by the district court for the District of Connecticut of Alexander’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied Alexander’s claim that the admission of his second confession made to a friend during his imprisonment, on other charges, violated his fifth amendment right to the assistance…