Legal Opinion
Taylor v. Roper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2009No. 08-2593PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Robert Taylor was convicted in Missouri on four counts of robbery. He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court 1 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging: (1) ineffective assistance of counsel, (2) error in the state court’s failure to sever his robbery counts, and (3) deprivation of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. The district court denied his petition in all respects. He limits his appeal to the speedy trial claim. We affirm.
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In February 1998, Robert Taylor was convicted by a jury in Missouri state court of three counts of…
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