Martin v. Wainwright, 84-5695
| Decision Date | 14 January 1986 |
| Docket Number | No. 84-5695,84-5695 |
| Citation | 781 F.2d 185 |
| Parties | Nollie Lee MARTIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Respondent-Appellee. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eleventh Circuit |
Michael Mello, Capital Collateral Representative, Tallahassee, Fla., for petitioner-appellant.
Joan Fowler Rossin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, West Palm Beach, Fla., for respondent-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, James L. King, Judge.
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
(Opinion August 26, 1985, 11 Cir., 1985, 770 F.2d 918).
Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.
The opinion of the court filed on August 26, 1985, is modified as follows:
The text of footnote 10 of the opinion is hereby deleted and the following substituted:
The Supreme Court recently decided Miller v. Fenton, --- U.S. ----, 106 S.Ct. 445, 88 L.Ed.2d 405 (1985). In Miller, the Court held that in considering the voluntariness of a confession, a federal habeas court should afford a presumption of correctness to a state court's findings of "subsidiary factual questions, such as whether ... in fact the police engaged in the intimidation tactics alleged by the defendant." --- U.S. at ----, 106 S.Ct. at 449-51. The federal habeas court should not, however, defer to a state court's ultimate conclusion as to the voluntariness of a confession. Id. Our opinion in this case is consistent with Miller; although we accepted the state court's finding on the "subsidiary factual question" of whether the police made the promises which Martin alleged, we independently reviewed the question of whether the interrogation tactics used by the police in this case resulted in Martin's will being overborne. After conducting our own analysis, we concluded that they did not. Hence Miller does not affect our disposition.
The text of footnote 31 is hereby deleted and the following substituted:
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