Legal Opinion
Ralph C. Feltrop v. Paul K. Delo
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 28, 1995No. 93-2738PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Ralph C. Feltrop, a Missouri inmate under sentence of death, appeals the judgment of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Feltrop raises numerous issues, the most difficult being whether the Supreme Court of Missouri correctly applied Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S. 639, 110 S.Ct. 3047, 111 L.Ed.2d 511 (1990), to cure the trial court’s sentencing-stage error in instructing the jury on a “depravity of mind” aggravating circumstance. We affirm.
I. Background
On March 16, 1987, shortly after a mutilated, dismembered female torso was found in St.…
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