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BLAIR v. ARMONTROUT

No. 85-0155-CV-W-5.

643 F.Supp. 785 (1986)

Walter J. BLAIR, Petitioner, v. Bill ARMONTROUT, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court, W.D. Missouri, W.D.

August 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Rhodes, Gage & Tucker, Kansas City, Mo., for petitioner.

John B. Williams, Jay D. Haden, Office of County Counselor, Kansas City, Mo., for respondent.

ORDER

SCOTT O. WRIGHT, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Walter Junior Blair, who is currently confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Blair was convicted of capital murder for the 1979 contract killing of a rape victim who was scheduled to testify. Blair was sentenced to death, and on March 14, 1985, this Court granted Blair's request for a stay of execution pending...

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