Legal Opinion
Moeller v. Weber
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 12, 2011No. 10-2069PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
KOPF, District Judge.
A South Dakota jury convicted Donald E. Moeller of first-degree murder and first-degree rape, and sentenced him to death. After the South Dakota Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and sentence and upheld the denial of his state habeas corpus petition, Moeller filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court 2 denied Moeller’s petition and we affirm.
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