Legal Opinion
Christopher L. Carroll v. Dora B. Schriro, Director, Department of Corrections Jeremiah (Jay) W. Nixon, Attorney General of the State of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 16, 2001No. 00-1145PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.
Christopher L. Carroll appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
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On March 1, 1995, a jury convicted Carroll of forcible sodomy under Missouri Re vised Statutes section 566.060, and he was subsequently sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment as a prior offender. The conviction stemmed from events that occurred on July 18, 1993, when Carroll and the victim, Jill Brownfield, who was at one time Carroll’s girlfriend, spent the evening together. Carroll and Brownfield had had an…
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- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Harris v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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