FEATHER v. UNITED STATES

No. 20-3371.

18 F.4th 982 (2021)

Garfield FEATHER, Appellant v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: November 22, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garfield Feather, Rapid City, SD, Pro Se.

Daniel Robert Fritz, Jr. , Ballard & Spahr, Minneapolis, MN, Julie Jonas , Andrew John Markquart , Innocence Project of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellant.

Stephanie Carlson Bengford , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Kevin Koliner , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, for Appellee.

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


In 1994, after a three-week trial, a jury convicted Garfield Feather and three co-defendants of sexually abusing five nieces. In recently denying Rule 60(b)(6) motions by Feather's co-defendants, which we treated as successive motions for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, we summarized the extensive post-conviction...

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