Legal Opinion
Allen Floyd Van Orman v. James Purkett
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 28, 1994No. 93-3611PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is the misbegotten offspring of a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner. Allen Floyd Van Orman was convicted of sodomy 1 in Jasper County, in the Western District of Missouri. He is incarcerated in the Farmington Correctional Center, in the Eastern District of Missouri. He filed his present petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) (his second such petition 2 ) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The District Court 3 entered an order transferring the case to the Western District…
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