Legal Opinion
Charles Lee Thomas v. Donald W. Wyrick
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 13, 1980No. 79-2046PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition for habeas corpus brought by Charles Lee Thomas, a state prisoner now serving a sentence of 55 years for second-degree murder. The District Court dismissed the petition without prejudice for failure to exhaust presently available state remedies. We vacate and remand for further proceedings to be described later in this opinion.
Thomas was charged with murder in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County, Missouri. Acting under what was then Mo.R. Crim.P. 25.34, that Court directed Thomas’s counsel to list for the state the names and addresses of the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Collins v. AugerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
- Ellis Eaton, Jr. v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by59 opinions
- William Daye v. Attorney General of the State of New York and Eugene Le Fevre, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
- Darrell Martin v. Herman Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary, and Mark v. Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South DakotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
- Robert Gray Graham v. Herman Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary, and Mark v. Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South DakotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
- Elbert Whaley Jones v. Gary Jerrison, Parole Officer Cranston Mitchell, Board of Probation and Parole and the Attorney General of MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- Rene Santana v. Peter Fenton, Superintendent, Rahway State Prison and the Attorney General of the State of New JerseyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
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