Legal Opinion
Ronald Gerald Adcox v. Jerry A. O'Brien and William Webster, Missouri Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 27, 1990No. 88-2361PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Gerald Adcox pleaded guilty in the Missouri state trial court to first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Adcox now seeks review of the federal district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. In the petition, Adcox asserts that his guilty plea was neither knowing nor voluntary and that he had been denied effective assistance of counsel. We remand to the district court for further findings.
On April 22, 1983, Adcox and his code-fendant Darren Molitor were arrested in Atlanta, Georgia for suspicion of murder and…
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