Legal Opinion
Francis Vern Kellogg v. David Scurr, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 27, 1984No. 83-2198PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Francis Vern Kellogg appeals from the judgment of the district court 1 denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Kellogg was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his wife Constance. On appeal, he argues that he was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments because his attorney failed to (1) introduce into evidence an alleged suicide note written by his wife; (2) call as a witness the physician who attended to his wife on the night of the shooting; and (3) move to…
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