Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Zinzer v. State of Iowa
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1995No. 94-3781PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Jeffrey Zinzer filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claiming ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The district court 1 denied the petition and Zinzer appeals. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Zinzer was convicted of first-degree murder in Iowa state court. After his conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, Zinzer sought state post-conviction relief. He claimed that his trial counsel had been ineffective in failing to pursue evidence of livor mortis 2 in the murder victim’s body. According to expert testimony in the post-trial record, had the…
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