Legal Opinion
Carroll White v. Burdette Searcey
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 15, 2012No. 11-3291PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
In 1989, Plaintiff Joseph White was convicted by a Nebraska jury of felony murder in the February 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska. The prosecution’s case against White was based primarily on the testimony and confessions of White’s co-defendants, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Thomas W. Winslow, James L. Dean, Kathleen A. Gonzalez, and Debra Shelden. White was sentenced to life in prison without parole and served eighteen years in prison. In 2008, DNA testing established that semen and blood found at the crime scene was left by Bruce Allen Smith, who had…
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