Legal Opinion
Smulls v. Roper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2008No. 05-2456PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
A Missouri jury found Herbert Smulls guilty of first degree murder, as well as other crimes, and he was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court of Missouri ultimately affirmed Smulls’ convictions on direct appeal and denied his motions for postconviction relief. The district court1 *856denied Smulls’ 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, and this court granted a certificate of ap-pealability on Smulls’ Batson2 — related claims. After a divided panel of this court affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part, Smulls v. Roper, 467 F.3d 1108 (8th Cir.2006), we granted the State’s…
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- Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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