Legal Opinion
Robert Flieger v. Paul K. Delo, Superintendent
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 7, 1994No. 92-3386PublishedCited by 237 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Robert Elmer Flieger was convicted of murdering Patricia Gradley. He appeals the District Court’s1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and we affirm.
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Gradley and her son lived in an apartment immediately below an apartment in which Flieger lived with his son. Gradley’s father owned the house that contained these apartments; in lieu of rent, Flieger performed a variety of maintenance on the house, including repairs to the trap door that separated the cellar from Gradley’s apartment.
Flieger and Gradley dated for several years until they broke up in December…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Foman v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by237 opinions
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- Robert T. Sidebottom v. Paul Delo Jay NixonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Danny Morris v. Dave DormireCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2000
- Charles Howard West v. William Seabold, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
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