Bernard Tyrone Whitaker v. Larry R. Meachum, Commissioner of Correction

In this appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alan H. Nevas, Judge), Bernard Tyrone Whitaker (“Whitaker” or “petitioner”) suggests that on federal collateral review of a state court conviction, the Government bears the burden of proving that, after having been read the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), petitioner voluntarily waived the rights of which he was advised. This argument is foreclosed by long-standing precedents establishing that the burden of proving a constitutional…