United States Eighth Circuit

Plaintiff's petition for federal habeas corpus relief is procedurally defaulted where he did not appeal the denial of state post-conviction relief to the Supreme Court of Iowa and he failed to show "cause" to excuse the default.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who represented the appellant was Frank Burnette of Des Moines, Iowa.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas W. Andrews, Assistant Attorney General,Des Moines, IA (Thomas J. Miller, on brief), for appellee.