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FLITTIE v. SOLEM

No. 84-1248.

775 F.2d 933 (1985)

Roger George FLITTIE, Appellant, v. Herman SOLEM, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary; and Mark V. Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South Dakota, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Gienapp, Madison, S.D., for appellant.

Jeffrey P. Hallem, Pierre, S.D., for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, HEANEY, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, ROSS, McMILLIAN, ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON, FAGG, and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, En Banc.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Roger Flittie, following the beating death of his stepmother, Ruth Flittie, was convicted in South Dakota state court of conspiracy to commit murder but acquitted of the charge of murder. After a second trial based on the same events, Flittie was convicted as an accessory after the fact to murder. Flittie brought this habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982) challenging his second conviction. He claimed his conviction...

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