Legal Opinion
Dale Matthew Olson v. Leslie Green, Chairman of Minnesota Board of Corrections, and Warren Spannaus, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1982No. 80-2178PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Dale Matthew Olson seeks postconviction relief from his state jury trial conviction for the first degree murders of Lueberta Davis and her two children. Olson received three consecutive life sentences. The federal district court 1 denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
Jean Beverly Link, Olson’s separately tried and convicted accomplice, 2 refused to testify as a prosecution witness at Olson’s trial in defiance of a court order. Thereafter, the prosecution introduced two statements that Link had given to police while in custody. The trial court…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Joseph A. Puleio v. George A. Vose, Jr., Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
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- United States v. Anthony Thompson, Stephanie Johnson, Anthony D. SpradleyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
- United States v. Paul Deluca, Robert Kaye, James Danno, and John LeeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- United States v. CherryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2000
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