BROWN v. ARMONTROUT

No. 89-1089.

898 F.2d 84 (1990)

John BROWN, Appellant, v. Bill ARMONTROUT, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Springfield Baldwin, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Stephen D. Hawke, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

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


HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

John Brown appeals from a judgment of the district court denying his habeas corpus petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.

In March, 1982 Brown pleaded guilty to capital murder and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for fifty years. At the guilty plea hearing, Brown acknowledged the following. Brown and Paula Washburn had lived together for four years. After the relationship ended in March...

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