Legal Opinion
Robert Osborne v. James D. Purkett, Superintendent, Eastern Missouri Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 16, 2005No. 04-1714PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Robert Osborne was convicted of rape following a jury trial in Missouri state court. His conviction and the denial of his motion for post-trial relief were upheld by the Missouri Court of Appeals. Osborne then filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000). The District Court 1 denied the petition without a hearing, and Osborne now appeals. We affirm.
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Osborne was tried in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County on May 5-7, 1998. The state’s principal witness was seventeen-year-old R.S., Osborne’s second cousin. R.S. testified that on July…
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