WEST, Chief Judge:
Petitioner, Patrick Gardiner, is presently serving a life sentence at Louisiana State Penitentiary for the murder of one James Bennet. He petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging as his grounds therefor that his constitutional rights were violated in that he was coerced into signing a confession and that he was not advised of his right to counsel. Since these same claims of constitutional violations were made by petitioner both...
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