Legal Opinion
Melvin Leroy Tyler v. Bill Armontrout
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 31, 1990No. 89-2345PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROY, Senior District Judge.
Melvin Leroy Tyler appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and the district court’s order denying Mr. Tyler’s Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the judgment. We affirm the district court’s rulings.
I. BACKGROUND
On August 4, 1978, Melvin Leroy Tyler was convicted in the State of Missouri of two counts of robbery and two counts of assault. The facts surrounding Tyler’s crimes were set out as follows in the petitioner’s direct-appeal opinion.
Evidence supporting the verdicts showed that on the morning of December 27, 1976,…
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