Legal Opinion
Michael McCall v. Dennis Benson, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1997No. 96-3366PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Judge.
Michael R. McCall appeals from an order of the district court 3 denying his request for appointment of counsel and dismissing his petition for habeas corpus. The district court denied McCall’s request for appointment of counsel because it found that the case did not raise either factual or legal issues complex enough to warrant appointed counsel. The district court denied McCall’s habeas petition because it held that he was proeedurally barred from obtaining relief. We affirm.
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McCall admitted that on January 22, 1994, he forced a woman into her nearby ear, threatened to kill…
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