Legal Opinion
Eldon Mellott v. James D. Purkett
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1995No. 94-4129PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Eldon Mellott appeals the dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. The district court 1 dismissed his petition without prejudice, finding that Mellott had not exhausted his state law remedies. We affirm.
Background
In 1986, a Missouri state court jury found Eldon Mellott guilty of sexual abuse in the first degree and sodomy. The state trial judge sentenced Mellott to concurrent terms of imprisonment of five years for the sexual abuse conviction and fifteen years for the sodomy conviction. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions on direct…
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