Charles Rhines v. Darin Young

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Charles Russell Rhines brutally murdered Donnivan Schaeffer while burgling a donut shop in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 8, 1992. A state court jury convicted Rhines of murder and burglary and sentenced him to death. The Supreme Court of South Dakota affirmed the conviction and sentence, State v. Rhines , 548 N.W.2d 415 , 424 (S.D.), cert. denied , 519 U.S. 1013 , 117 S.Ct. 522 , 136 L.Ed.2d 410 (1996), and subsequently affirmed the denial of state post-conviction relief. Rhines v. Weber , 608 N.W.2d 303 , 305 (S.D. 2000). The district court 1 denied his federal…