Legal Opinion
Jerry Dean King v. Mike Kemna, Superintendent Jeremiah (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, State of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 17, 2001No. 99-2047PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
In 1994, Missouri inmate Jerry Dean King was convicted of first-degree assault and armed criminal action and received two consecutive life sentences for shooting his brother Dennis. King now appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The issue is whether his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance in failing to investigate and present evidence of King’s diminished mental capacity. After a panel of this court reversed, we granted the State’s petition for rehearing en banc and vacated the panel opinion. Concluding…
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