State Ex Rel. Goodchild, Petitioner v. Burke

Summary

The court denied habeas corpus relief, holding that the petition was not premature, that the petitioner was not denied counsel at any constitutionally required stage, and that his pre-appointment statements were not constitutionally inadmissible under the circumstances. The court held that Wisconsin's procedure for submitting disputed confession voluntariness to the jury violated due process, adopted a judge-alone procedure for determining voluntariness, but concluded that the petitioner waived any challenge to the prior procedure through counsel's deliberate trial strategy.