Legal Opinion
Russell R. Maggard v. Donald Wyrick
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 2, 1986No. 85-2119PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Chief Judge.
In 1969, Russell Maggard was sentenced to life imprisonment in a Missouri state court upon his plea of guilty for the first degree murder of a deputy sheriff during the course of an armed robbery. In June, 1983, the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole (the Board) refused to release Mag-gard on parole at that time citing as its reason that it “would depreciate the seriousness of the offense committed or promote disrespect for the law.”
After exhausting his state remedies, Maggard filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus in United States District Court for the Western…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Olim v. WakinekonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Weaver v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Cummings v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Larry Wayne v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Paul CaspariCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- State Ex Rel. Cavallaro v. GrooseSupreme Court of Missouri · 1995
- Sterling Dicken Donald Harden, Edward H. Pennington v. John Ashcroft Board of Probation and Parole Dept. Of Corrections Cranston Mitchell Dick MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
- John Marshall v. Cranston Mitchell State Board of Probation and ParoleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Cooper v. Missouri Board of Probation & ParoleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1993
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