Legal Opinion
Willie Ray Turner v. William Armontrout, and Attorney General of the State of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1988No. 87-1774PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Willie Ray Turner appeals an order of the district court 1 denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For reversal, Turner argues that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of capital murder and that he was denied due process of law by the exclusion of his accomplice’s hearsay declarations. For the following reasons we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Turner was convicted of two counts of capital murder in Missouri state court and sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for fifty…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Sumner v. MataSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Green v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- State v. TurnerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1981
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3Cited by31 opinions
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- Vance Roy Clark v. Michael GrooseCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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