Roy Roberts v. Michael Bowersox

Missouri inmate Roy Roberts is on death row for the capital murder of a prison guard. After exhausting state-court remedies, Roberts filed a federal habeas petition in March 1990. Roberts asserted, among other things, that his Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by prosecu-torial misconduct and by ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney did not object to the prosecutor’s characterizations of accomplice liability. The district court denied relief, and we affirmed, see Roberts v. Bowersox, 137 F.3d 1062 (8th Cir.1998), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 119 S.Ct.…