SPEEDY v. WYRICK

No. 83-2506.

748 F.2d 481 (1984)

Bobby Ray SPEEDY, Appellant, v. Donald W. WYRICK, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri and John Ashcroft, Attorney General, State of Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian S. Riepen, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Rosalynn Van Heest, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellees.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

On June 25, 1973, Bobby Ray Speedy pled not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease to the shotgun murders of his ex-wife's boyfriend and another man. On November 8, 1973, Speedy was convicted of both murders by a jury in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri. Speedy appealed his conviction in the Missouri courts on several grounds, one of which was the claim that he was denied due process by the failure of the trial court to...

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