Legal Opinion
Joseph Amrine v. Michael Bowersox, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 10, 1997No. 96-1892PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Before the court is Joseph Amrine’s motion to remand to the district court prior to the briefing on his appeal from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Amrine seeks a remand because of new evidence discovered after his petition was ruled on by the district court.2 He says this new evidence shows him actually innocent of the murder of a fellow prison inmate for which he has been sentenced to death. He wants to introduce at an evidentiary hearing testimony from the eyewitnesses who made the case against him at trial because they…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Schlup v. DeloSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Herrera v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Sawyer v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Rozzelle v. Secretary, Florida Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2012
- Amrine v. BrooksCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2008
- Donald Joe Hall v. Allen Luebbers, Superintendent of Potosi Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2002
- Joseph Amrine v. Michael Bowersox, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
- State Ex Rel. Amrine v. RoperSupreme Court of Missouri · 2003
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