Legal Opinion
Bell-Bey v. Roper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 17, 2007No. 06-2105PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Circuit Judge.
Winston Bell-Bey (Bell-Bey) appeals the district court’s 1 denial of Bell-Bey’s application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On June 3, 1994, Bell-Bey doused Fay Allen (Allen), his wife, with gasoline and lit Men on fire. Men suffered burns over 90% of her body and died two weeks later. Bell-Bey was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court of Missouri reversed Bell-Bey’s conviction and sentence and remanded for a new trial based upon the trial court’s improper admission of hearsay evidence.…
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