Carl W. Frazier v. Harold v. Langlois, Warden of Adult Correctional Institution

Petitioner, a Rhode Island prisoner serving two sentences for twenty and twenty-two years, sought federal habeas corpus to gain release from both. The district court denied the petition on the ground that petitioner had not exhausted his state court remedies. We affirm.

As to the proceedings leading to the twenty year sentence, habeas is sought because of the alleged denial of the right of confrontation with an absent witness — an informer- — -whose statements were allegedly admitted into evidence. But the issue presented to the state court in a prior proceeding was that the confrontation…