Legal Opinion
John Henry Nachtigall v. Joseph Class, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 1, 1995No. 94-1943PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
John Henry Nachtigall appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his third petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because we find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the petition, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1984, Nachtigall was charged in state court with sexual contact with a child under fifteen and photographing a child involved in obscene acts. The charges concerned photographs of Nachtigall and his girlfriend’s three-year-old daughter in a variety of sexual poses. After, being prevailed upon by the trial…
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