Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al.
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated?
Questions Presented 1, Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke’s post-indictment statements and actions that were initiated and recorded by the state’s undercover agent? ; 2. Was Cooke’s Fourteenth Amendment right to due process violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke’s involuntary statements and actions that resulted from threats and intimidation placed upon Cooke by the state’s agent? 3. Was Cooke’s Fourteenth Amendment right to due process violated when the state introduced at his trial material evidence that was irreconcilably contradictory to material evidence the state introduced at his co-defendant’s trial nine months earlier to convict the co-defendant of the same murder? ° l