Legal Opinion
O'Dell Blackmon v. Carl White, Superintendent
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1987No. 87-1133PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
O’Dell Blackmon, a Missouri inmate, is serving sentences of life and 35 years for the crimes of first-degree felony murder and assault with intent to kill, respectively. His case comes to us on appeal of the District Court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
Blackmon was convicted in 1977 of causing the death of an accomplice during the armed robbery of an office of the Beneficial Finance Company in St. Louis. There was evidence from which the jury could have found that the accomplice was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire between…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- State v. OldsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1980
- State v. HoltSupreme Court of Missouri · 1980
- State v. StapletonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1975
- Love v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1984
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3Cited by46 opinions
- Leonard Marvin Laws v. Bill ArmontroutCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
- Robert Driscoll v. Paul Delo, Robert Driscoll v. Paul DeloCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Winford L. Stokes, Jr. v. William M. Armontrout, William L. WebsterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
- Mallett v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1989
- Donald E. Reese v. Paul Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
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