WILKINS v. BOWERSOX

No. 96-2441.

145 F.3d 1006 (1998)

Heath Allen WILKINS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Michael BOWERSOX, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1998.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied July 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cassandra Kaye Dolgin, Jefferson City, MO, argued (Jeremiah (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, on the brief), for Respondent-Appellant.

Sean D. O'Brien, Kansas City, MO, argued (Ellen Y. Suni, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before McMILLIAN and HANSEN, Circuit Judges, and MAGNUSON, District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 13, 1998.

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

The Superintendent of the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Missouri, Michael Bowersox (Respondent), appeals from the judgment of the district court2 granting Heath Allen Wilkins' petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1994). In 1986, Wilkins pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a...

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