Earl Leroy Blackburn is a state prisoner in the Maryland Penitentiary confined under a sentence of death. Blackburn seeks in this case a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the only incriminating evidence introduced against him at his trial was his own confession and that that confession was involuntarily given. Blackburn contends that his confession was the product of an overborne...
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