Legal Opinion
Richard Dennis Oxford v. Paul Delo
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 8, 1995No. 94-1879PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Richard Dennis Oxford appeals a final judgment entered in the District Court1 denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988). We affirm.
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On the evening of November 14, 1986, Melba Wampler and her husband Harold disappeared after leaving a bar in Joplin, Missouri, in the company of Oxford and his companion Richard Brown. At the time, Oxford and Brown were fugitives from the Conner Correctional Center in Hominy, Oklahoma. The partially decomposed bodies of the Wamplers were discovered in the trunk of a car at a Kansas City motel on January…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Schlup v. DeloSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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