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CAHILL v. RUSHEN

Civ. No. S-78-603 LKK.

501 F.Supp. 1219 (1980)

James Thomas CAHILL, Petitioner, v. Ruth RUSHEN, Director, California Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, E. D. California.

December 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Christiansen, Deputy State Public Defender, Sacramento, Cal., for petitioner.

Shirley A. Nelson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sacramento, Cal., for respondent.

OPINION AND ORDER

KARLTON, District Judge.

Petitioner, a state prisoner, seeks a writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He is confined as a result of a conviction for first degree murder and challenges that confinement alleging: (1) a confession obtained in violation of both his Sixth Amendment right to counsel and his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination was employed in securing his conviction, and (2) the prosecutor improperly argued...

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