Legal Opinion
Antonio Richardson v. Michael Bowersox
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 8, 1999No. 98-3293PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.
Antonio Richardson was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Missouri state court. He appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
I
On the night of April 4, 1991, Richardson, Reginald Clemons, Marlin Gray, and Daniel Winfrey went to the Chain of Rocks Bridge, an abandoned bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, to smoke marijuana. They parked on the Missouri side and walked across to the Illinois side to do the drugs. The marijuana would not light, however,…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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