Legal Opinion
Maurice Oscar Byrd v. William Armontrout, Warden of Missouri State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 6, 1989No. 88-1903PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Maurice Oscar Byrd appeals the District Court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
In 1982, Byrd was convicted in a state trial court of four counts of capital murder. The murders were committed in connection with a robbery at Pope’s Cafeteria in the West County Shopping Center in St. Louis County. On October 23, 1980, two employees of Pope’s arrived for work around 7:35 a.m. to discover the bodies of James Wood, Carolyn Turner, and Edna Ince in the cafeteria business office. Each had been shot to death. A fourth victim, Judy Cazaco, had been…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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