Legal Opinion
Bryan Kirby Barrett, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Gerardo Acevedo, Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 9, 1999No. 96-2699, 96-2702PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Gerardo Acevedo, on behalf of the State of Iowa (the State), appeals the district court’s grant of habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to Bryan Kirby Barrett. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
Barrett has been twice tried for, and twice convicted of, the murders of two young women. The Iowa Supreme Court set aside his first conviction and granted him a new trial on the ground that certain evidence had been improperly admitted. See State v. Barrett, 401 N.W.2d 184, 189 (Iowa 1987) (Barrett I). Barrett was again tried and convicted. His second conviction was affirmed by the…
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