Legal Opinion
Ryan Ferguson v. John Short
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 19, 2016No. 15-2857PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
This case is about an allegedly improper investigation into the murder of Kent Heitholt. The murder went unsolved for two years until Charles Erickson caught the attention of the detectives working the case. After implicating himself and Ryan Ferguson in the killing, EricksOn pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery and agreed to testify against Ferguson at Ferguson’s murder trial. A jury convicted Ferguson of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery based largely on Erickson’s testimony. More than five years later, the Missouri Court of…
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