Legal Opinion
Fred A. Hamilton v. Michael Groose
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1994No. 93-2700PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Fred A. Hamilton appeals the District Court’s1 denial of his petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
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In 1985, Hamilton abducted a seventeen-year-old girl as she walked to school and raped her five times. In 1987, a jury heard the state’s evidence of Hamilton’s conduct and convicted him of five counts of rape and one count of kidnapping. Hamilton, as a prior and persistent sexual offender, was sentenced to serve 165 years in prison (30 years for each rape, 15 years for the kidnapping).
Hamilton appealed to the Missouri Court of Appeals.…
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- Benjamin Adams v. Midge Carroll, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
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