Legal Opinion
Leonard Marvin Laws v. Bill Armontrout
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 9, 1987No. 87-1018PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
The State of Missouri appeals from the district court’s grant of habeas corpus relief to Laws. The district court vacated Laws’ death sentence after concluding that Laws had received ineffective assistance of counsel during the punishment phase of his trial. We reverse and reinstate the sentence, finding no valid claim of ineffectiveness of trial counsel.
I. BACKGROUND.
In October of 1980, Leonard Laws was living in a two-room house trailer with George Clifton Gilmore, Gilmore’s brother Norman, and several others in the Gilmore family. All three men were unemployed. George…
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3Cited by35 opinions
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