United States Eighth Circuit

A claim that counsel was ineffective when he exercised peremptory strikes and permitted the jury to be seated without petitioner being present was procedurally barred, and petitioner failed to establish prejudice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/26/2002
• Published 11/26/2002

Judges

• LOKEN, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, RILEY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Grant J. Shostak, argued, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tamara D. Ader, argued, Asst. Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO (Cassandra K. Dolgin, on the brief), for appellee.