Richard Dewayne McCloud v. V. Lee Bounds, Director of North Carolina Dept. Of Corrections

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Richard Dewayne McCloud, a North Carolina state prisoner, appeals from the district court’s denial of habeas corpus relief. Convicted on charges of safe-cracking, possession of burglary tools, breaking and entering, larceny, and receiving stolen property, he asserted that the state’s primary evidence against him was a confession, that the police obtained his confession as a direct fruit of an illegal search, and that it was therefore inadmissible under Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963). The district court held that the confession…