VAN ORMAN v. PURKETT

No. 93-3611.

43 F.3d 1201 (1994)

Allen Floyd VAN ORMAN, Appellant, v. James PURKETT, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda K. Behrmann, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.

Stephen Hawke, Jefferson City, MO, for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BEAM, Circuit Judge.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is the misbegotten offspring of a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner. Allen Floyd Van Orman was convicted of sodomy1 in Jasper County, in the Western District of Missouri. He is incarcerated in the Farmington Correctional Center, in the Eastern District of Missouri. He filed his present petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) (his second such petition...

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