United States First Circuit

Denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief following conviction of armed robbery and related crimes is affirmed where: 1) defendant has not offered clear and convincing evidence that the state established agency relationships with inmate informants who then elicited admissions from him without the presence of counsel in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights; 2) defendant's due process claim fails; 3) defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim is rejected; and 4) the issues defendant raises do not present the court with opportunity to consider his constitutional challenge to the AEDPA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2010
• Published 02/03/2010

Judges

• STAHL, Circuit Judge., Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Stahl, Circuit Judge, and DiClerico,District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Victoria L. Nadel, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anne Marie Thomas, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, and Lincoln S. Jalelian, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief for appellee.