United States Eighth Circuit

A decision refusing to hear a petition for habeas relief in a murder case is affirmed where Missouri's escape rule is firmly established, regularly followed and readily ascertainable when applied, and consequently the rule is an adequate and independent state ground barring federal review of the habeas claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/26/2007
• Published 12/26/2007

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, BOWMAN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kent E. Gipson, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Spillane, Asst. Atty. Gen. Jefferson City, MO, argued (Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.