United States Eighth Circuit

Chapter 154 of the AEDPA, 28 USC 2261, applies if a state has a mechanism for the "appointment, compensation, and payment" of competent counsel in death penalty cases in place on the date when post conviction counsel was appointed, not selected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, HALL, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Spillane, Asst. Atty. General, argued, Jefferson City, MO (Jeremiah W. Nixon, Missouri Atty. General, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kent E. Gispon, argued, Kansas City, MO (Wiliam C. Odle, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for appellee.