SNETHEN v. NIX

No. 83-2064.

736 F.2d 1241 (1984)

Daniel SNETHEN, Appellant, v. Crispus NIX, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1984.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, Thomas D. McGrane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee.

James P. Cleary, Gary L. Shriver, Student Attorney-Legal Intern, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellant.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Daniel Snethen appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Snethen asserts the admission at trial of statements he made during a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, and other statements he made to police officers while in custody, violated the fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendments. Because we find Snethen's petition contains both exhausted and unexhausted claims...

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