Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 22, 2011No. 11-1432PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Shanon Thomas was convicted of first-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, 113, and 1153, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals from his conviction, arguing that the district court 1 erred in denying his motion to suppress, his motion for judgment of acquittal, and his motion for a mistrial. We affirm.
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On the evening of April 17, 2010, Thomas and his girlfriend, Marissa Mackey, found that Mackey’s residence had been vandalized. They suspected that Dawn Starlin, Mackey’s neighbor across the back alley and Thomas’s former girlfriend, was the culprit.…
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