Legal Opinion
Nelson v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 7, 1997No. 1213, Docket 96-2354PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Tommy Nelson appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sifton, J.) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the court having determined that Nelson’s confession was not coerced by the police and therefore that Nelson was not deprived of his Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination. The district court presumed the correctness of the state court’s factual findings that Nelson had not been threatened and beaten by the police prior to giving his confession, and…
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