United States Eighth Circuit

A federal circuit court may consider the issue of procedural default in a habeas petition sua sponte.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/17/2001
• Published 09/17/2001

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, HEANEY, McMILLIAN, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, BOWMAN, BEAM, LOKEN, HANSEN, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, MURPHY, and BYE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William E. Corum, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cassandra Dolgin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, MO, argued (Karen P. Butler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, MO, on the brief), for appellee.