Legal Opinion
Michael Robert O'ROuRke Jeff Rosenzweig, as Next Friend of Michael Robert O'ROuRke v. Roger Endell, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 17, 1998No. 97-3728PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Roger Endell, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (the State), 2 appeals from the judgment of the District Court granting a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C, § 2254 to Michael Robert O’Rourke, who is in state custody pursuant to a conviction of capital murder under Arkansas state law and who is under a sentence of death. We reverse. '.
I
We begin with the facts of the crime for which O’Rourke was convicted and sentenced to death, the murder of his parents on July 28,1983.
The bulk of the most damning testimony against O’Rourke during trial was elicited…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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