TUNSTALL v. HOPKINS

No. 01-2730.

306 F.3d 601 (2002)

Simon Curtis TUNSTALL, Appellant, v. Frank X. HOPKINS, NSP Warden; Herbert Maschner, ISP Warden, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 24, 2002.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied: November 13, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley E. Munger, argued, Sioux City, IA (Jay E. Denne, on the brief), for appellant.

Sharon Hall, argued, Des Moines, IA, for appellee.

Before LOKEN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges, and KORNMANN, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied: November 13, 2002.*

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

Simon Curtis Tunstall (Tunstall) appeals the denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by the district court.2 On February 18, 1987, a jury convicted Tunstall of murder in the first degree and burglary in the first degree. An Iowa state court sentenced Tunstall to life imprisonment without...

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