Legal Opinion
Martin Link v. Al Luebbers
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 8, 2006No. 04-3868PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Martin Link was found guilty by a jury of kidnapping, raping, and murdering eleven-year-old Elissa Self-Braun and was sentenced to death. He appeals from the district court’s 1 judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
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Elissa Self-Braun disappeared in St. Louis on the morning of January 11, 1991. On January 15, her body was found in a drift pile near the St. Francis River in Wayne County, Missouri, approximately 130 miles from St. Louis. On January 26, 1991, Link was arrested following a high speed chase, which ended when Link crashed the…
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