United States ex rel. Weger v. Brierton

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GRADY, District Judge.

Before the court is respondents’ motion to dismiss a petition for habeas corpus brought by a prisoner currently serving a life sentence. Petitioner complains of certain alleged errors in his murder trial in 1961. We will treat respondents’ motion, accompanied by evidentiary matter, as one for summary judgment and grant it.

Petitioner’s first contention is that several confessions which he made and which were introduced at his trial were involuntary. This contention was advanced in the appeal from his conviction and rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court…