Legal Opinion
Jeffrey Tokar v. Michael Bowersox
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 3, 2000No. 98-3031PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Jeffrey Tokar was convicted in Missouri state court for the murder of Johnny Douglass and was sentenced to death. To-kar appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. .§ 2254. We affirm.
1. BACKGROUND
On the afternoon of March 11, 1992, Jeffrey Tokar, driving a yellow Subaru station wagon, picked up his girlfriend, Sandra Stickley, from her place of employment at the Budgetel Inn in Columbia, Missouri. They went driving in a rural area outside the city limits of Centraba, Missouri, looking for vacant houses to…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Penry v. LynaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- State v. TokarSupreme Court of Missouri · 1996
- Bryan Kirby Barrett, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Gerardo Acevedo, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Christopher Simmons v. Michael BowersoxCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2001
- Morrow v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 2000
- William L. Rousan v. Donald P. Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2006
- RICHARD D. CLAY, — APPELLEE/CROSS v. MICHAEL BOWERSOX, — APPELLANT/CROSSCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004
- Lyons v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 2001
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