Smith v. Armontrout

812 F.2d 1050

Gerald M. SMITH, By and Through the MISSOURI PUBLIC DEFENDER

COMMISSION and Joseph W. Downey, Public Defender

for the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit

of Missouri, as Next Friends, Appellants,

v.

William ARMONTROUT, Appellee.

No. 86-1457.

United States Court of Appeals,

Eighth Circuit.

Submitted Nov. 10, 1986.

Decided March 2, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 8, 1987.

Jordan Cherrick, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

Stephen D. Hawke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON, and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

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Appellants…