United States Eighth Circuit

Petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel necessarily fail where petitioner cannot show that more effective counsel would have achieved a different result.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2001
• Published 06/06/2001

Judges

• McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge., BEFORE:  McMILLIAN and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and MOODY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara Ann C. Fears, argued, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Ware, Asst. U.S. Atty., argued, St. Louis, MO (Audrey G. Fleissig, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.