Legal Opinion
Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1974No. 73-1278PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Roger Lee McQueen was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of one George Francis in the fall of 1963 and was tried in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, approximately a year later. On October 2, 1964, McQueen was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. After various appeals and collateral attacks on his conviction in state courts, 1 he petitioned for a writ of ha beas corpus under 28 TJ.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.…
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3Cited by236 opinions
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