Legal Opinion
Donald Wayne Howard v. Orville Pung, Commissioner of Corrections and Frank Wood, Warden, Oak Park Heights Facility
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1989No. 88-5015PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Donald Wayne Howard appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which he challenged his Minnesota state court conviction for the first degree murder of his wife, Shirleen Howard. We affirm.
The facts of this case are fully set forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court of Minnesota affirming the partial denial of post-conviction relief. State v. Howard, 324 N.W.2d 216 (Minn. 1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1172, 103 S.Ct. 818, 74 L.Ed.2d 1016 (1983). Howard was convicted of hiring Bruce Webber to kill…
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