RHODES v. SMITH

No. 18-3581.

950 F.3d 1032 (2020)

Thomas Daniel RHODES Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michelle SMITH, Warden Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: February 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Bradford , BASSFORD & REMELE, Minneapolis, MN, Julie Jonas , INNOCENCE PROJECT OF MINNESOTA, Saint Paul, MN, Samuel Thomas Lockner , Alexandra J. Olson , CARLSON & CASPERS, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Matthew Frank , Assistant Attorney General, ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Appeals Division, Saint Paul, MN, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, LOKEN and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.


Thomas Rhodes appeals the district court's1 denial of his third successive federal habeas corpus petition from his state law murder conviction. Despite Rhodes's claims of new scientific evidence proving innocence and entitlement to an evidentiary hearing...

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