Legal Opinion
Doyle J. Williams v. Bill Armontrout
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1990No. 88-1342PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Doyle J. Williams, a Missouri prisoner convicted of capital murder, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Williams’s capital murder conviction arose out of a cold-blooded scheme to eliminate witnesses who might implicate him in the 1980 burglary of a doctor’s office in Auxvasse, Missouri. After the burglary, Williams attempted to pass a forged prescription using a form stolen in the burglary. Williams first murdered the doctor in the belief that by preventing the doctor from…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by51 opinions
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