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1. Originally the applicant faced seven charges of robbery in the District Court. He was, in the outcome, found guilty on only the last of those charges as Sanders, D.J. ruled that the confessional statement which he had made implicating him in the other six should not be admitted. There being no evidence of identification from the victims in those robberies the court returned verdicts of not guilty in each case. On the seventh count the applicant was convicted upon the basis both of a confessio