Legal Opinion
Roy Roberts v. Michael Bowersox
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1998No. 96-3789PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
During a Missouri prison riot, inmate Roy Roberts restrained an unarmed guard and fended off would-be rescuers while two other inmates, Robert Driscoll and Rodney Carr, stabbed the guard to death with knives honed from metal rulers. Believing eyewitnesses who testified for the State, a jury rejected Roberts’s defense of mistaken identity and convicted him of capital murder. Roberts received the death penalty. See Mo. Rev.Stat. §§ 565.001, 006, 008 (1978) (repealed Oct. 1, 1984). The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed Roberts’s conviction and sentence, see State v. Roberts,…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Caldwell v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Enmund v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Henderson v. KibbeSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by36 opinions
- United States v. Jeffrey William PaulCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2000
- Roy Ramsey v. Michael Bowersox, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998
- Antonio Richardson v. Michael BowersoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1999
- Bert L. Hunter v. Michael BowersoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1999
- Robert A. Walls, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Michael Bowersox, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998
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