Legal Opinion
Raul Rudy Sotelo v. Indiana State Prison and Linley E. Pearson, Attorney General of the State of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1988No. 87-2191PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Raul Rudy Sotelo was convicted by a state court jury in Indiana of the first degree murder of a young girl, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals the district court’s denial of his writ of habeas corpus, contending that his confession was involuntary and that he was denied effective assistance of counsel during the state court trial. We affirm the district court on the issue of the voluntariness of Sotelo’s confession. We do not have jurisdiction over his appeal regarding the effective assistance of counsel issue. The conduct which now forms the basis of…
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