Legal Opinion
Donnie Lee Wyldes, Jr. v. Thomas Hundley, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 20, 1995No. 95-1212PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Donnie Lee Wyldes, Jr., appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal, on procedural grounds, of his habeas corpus petition. We conclude that Wyldes defaulted his federal juror misconduct claim by failing to raise it in the Iowa state courts. Because he has not asserted grounds sufficient to overcome the procedural bar, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In February of 1987, the State of Iowa charged Wyldes with attempted murder and murder in the first degree. During Wyldes’s trial, the prosecuting attorney attempted to connect him to the crime scene by showing that Wyldes’s .22…
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