Legal Opinion
Cyril Athana Kolocotronis v. William Holcomb, Superintendent, Fulton State Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 15, 1991No. 90-1500EMPublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Cyril Athana Kolocotronis appeals pro se the District Court’s order dismissing, without prejudice, his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for failure to exhaust state remedies. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
On February 11, 1960, Kolocotronis was found not guilty, by reason of insanity, of assault with intent to ravish and was committed to the State Hospital in Fulton, Missouri. On April 29, 1989, he filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming the 1960 proceeding was constitutionally defective in that (1) he was coerced into pleading not guilty by…
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