United States Eighth Circuit

A conviction for murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire is affirmed over challenges to a denial of a motion to suppress a videotaped statement defendant gave during his transportation from federal to state custody, and several other evidentiary rulings by the district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2007
• Published 03/21/2007

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before MELLOY, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Holland Sindel, argued, Sindel & Sindel, St. Louis, MO, (Daniel T. Schattnik, East Alton, IL, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cristian M. Stevens, argued, Asst. U.S. Atty., St. Louis, MO (Thomas E. Dittmeier, Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.