Legal Opinion
Revels v. Sanders
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 10, 2008No. 06-3052PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Frederick Lee Revels, an insanity acquittee, appeals from the district court’s order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition, Revels challenges the Missouri Court of Appeals’s denial of his application for unconditional release. Because we conclude that the court violated Revels’s due process rights by imposing on him an evidentiary burden contrary to Supreme Court precedent, we reverse the judgment of the district court and grant a conditional writ of habeas corpus.
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Revels is involuntarily committed as a…
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- Foucha v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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