Legal Opinion
Vernon Brown v. Allen D. Luebbers
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 26, 2004No. 02-1845EMPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Vernon Brown appeals from the decision of the District Court denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
In 1991, a jury convicted Brown of first-degree murder in the 1985 strangulation death of Synetta Ford in St. Louis, Missouri, and he was sentenced to be executed. His motion for state post-conviction relief filed pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 29.15 was overruled. That decision, as well as Brown’s conviction and sentence, were affirmed in a consolidated appeal taken to the…
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