Legal Opinion
Richard S. Zeitvogel v. Paul Delo
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1996No. 94-2976PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Richard S. Zeitvogel is on death row in Missouri for murdering Gary Wayne Dew in 1984. Zeitvogel appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988), and we affirm.
Zeitvogel killed Dew while they were cellmates in the maximum security area of the Missouri State Penitentiary., A prison guard responding to a flashing emergency light over their cell found Dew dead on a mattress on the floor, and Zeitvogel alone with the body in the locked cell. Zeitvogel told the guard, “I killed my cellie.” During Zeitvo-gel’s trial…
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