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WISE v. BOWERSOX

No. 97-1139.

136 F.3d 1197 (1998)

Jessie Lee WISE, Appellant, v. Michael BOWERSOX, Supt., PCC, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson L. Mitten, St. Louis, MO, argued (Mary J. Ligocki, on the brief), for Appellant.

Michael J. Spillane, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, argued (Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before BOWMAN, LOKEN, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Jessie Wise was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in a Missouri state court. The evidence showed that he attacked Geraldine McDonald without provocation and beat her to death with a pipe wrench on August 27, 1988. Over the next two days he burglarized her home, where he had killed her, and stole her money, her car, and her jewelry, some of which he pawned and some of which he traded for cocaine. The postconviction court...

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