Legal Opinion
Roger George Flittie v. Herman Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary and Mark v. Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South Dakota
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 11, 1985No. 84-1248PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Ruth Flittie was found dead, with multiple head injuries, having been beaten with the base of a lamp that was found by her body. Her adopted son, Roger Flittie, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder but acquitted of the charge of murder. A second trial followed, based on the events surrounding the same killing, and Flittie was convicted as an accessory after the fact to murder. Flittie brought this habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982), alleging that his conviction of conspiracy to commit murder and acquittal of murder barred his trial on…
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