Calvert L. Antwine v. Paul Delo Missouri Attorney General

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Calvert Leon Antwine appeals the District Court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm in most respects, but we conclude that Antwine was denied the effective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his trial and that the prosecutor’s penalty-phase closing argument violated Antwine’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. We therefore vacate his death sentence and remand to the District Court with directions to issue a writ of habe-as corpus releasing Antwine from the sentence of death, unless the State of Missouri commences…