Legal Opinion
Anthony Siers v. Douglas Weber, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary Mark W. Barnett, South Dakota Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2001No. 00-3124PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.
The state of South Dakota appeals from the district court’s grant of Anthony Si-ers’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. We reverse and remand with directions to dismiss the petition.
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On October 4, 1991, a Pennington County, South Dakota, jury found Siers guilty of second degree rape. As a habitual offender, Siers was sentenced to fifteen years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. In 1994, after the South Dakota Supreme Court summarily affirmed his conviction, Siers filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the state trial court, which was eventually granted in…
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