Legal Opinion
Bobby Lewis Shaw v. Paul Delo, Superintendent, Missouri State Correctional Facility at Potosi, and Attorney General of the State of Missouri
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 28, 1992No. 91-1909PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Bobby Lewis Shaw, a Missouri death row prisoner, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his second petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
I
While Shaw was incarcerated in Missouri in July 1979, he killed Walter Farrow, a prison corrections officer. The evidence presented at Shaw’s trial shows Shaw calmly and deliberately killed Farrow in the course of carrying out a plan to kill Clint Wyrick, the warden’s uncle and a prison commissary employee, for payment.
Before the murder, inmate Byron Berry overheard Shaw’s discussion with a fellow inmate. The fellow inmate…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by36 opinions
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- Emmett C. Nave v. Paul K. Delo, Emmett C. Nave v. Paul K. Delo, Emmett C. Nave v. Paul K. DeloCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Robert L. Abernathy and Joyce Abernathy v. Superior Hardwoods, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- Anthony J. Larette v. Paul DeloCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Alan Jeffrey Bannister v. Paul K. DeloCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
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