Legal Opinion
Wilkins v. Bowersox
District Court, W.D. Missouri
Decided May 15, 1996No. 91-0861-CV-W-5PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER. SCOTT O. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.
This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by Heath A. Wilkins (petitioner), an inmate in custody at Potosí Correctional Center, Potosí, Missouri. The petitioner seeks to vacate his conviction for first degree murder and sentence of death entered by the Circuit Court of Clay County, Missouri after petitioner waived counsel and entered a guilty plea. 1
Background
In the summer of 1985, Petitioner, who was then sixteen years old, lived in a public park in Kansas City with three other teenagers, Marjorie Fihpiak, Patrick…
2Cases cited123 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Morrow v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 2000
- Eric Clemmons v. Paul DeloCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
- State v. ShaferSupreme Court of Missouri · 1998
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Missouri · 2000
- Heath Allen Wilkins v. Michael BowersoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1998
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