Legal Opinion
Arthur Lee Ford v. William Armontrout
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1990No. 89-2277, 90-1619PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY WOODS, District Judge.
I. FACTS
During the early morning hours of September 28, 1980, a woman accepted a ride home from an East St. Louis, Illinois lounge with a man she later identified as the petitioner. When she entered the automobile, later determined to have been stolen, she noticed two other men in the back seat, one of whom put a pistol to her head. Petitioner then drove her to a remote area of St. Louis, Missouri where she was repeatedly raped and sodomized. Apparently fearing the arrival of the police, the men fled on foot, throwing an object into the automobile and causing it to…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Manson v. BrathwaiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Leonard Marvin Laws v. Bill ArmontroutCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- McAleese v. MazurkiewiczCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1993
- Jerry R. Poe v. Paul D. Caspari, Superintendent of the Algoa Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- United States v. Gregory Murdock, A/K/A Prentice ParkerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1991
- Mcaleese v. MazurkiewiczCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1993
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