Willie Lee Kirksey v. E. W. Jones, Superintendent

NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

Willie Lee Kirksey appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Whitman Knapp, Judge), entered September 8, 1981, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus to challenge his state court conviction for the murder of three people. Kirksey contends on appeal that his conviction was obtained in violation of his constitutional rights because the prosecutor referred in summation to a co-defendant’s confession that implicated Kirksey, because the prosecutor’s summation was inflammatory, and because the evidence included a reference…