Legal Opinion
Storey v. Roper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2010No. 08-2936PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*512BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Walter Timothy Storey appeals the district court’s1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus in this death penalty case. Five issues have been certified for appeal — two claims regarding victim impact testimony; one claim about the pecuniary gain statutory aggravator; and two claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm the denial of habeas corpus relief.
I. BACKGROUND
Jill Frey, a special education teacher in St. Charles, Missouri, was murdered in her apartment in St. Charles in February 1990. Storey, who lived with his mother, was her…
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