Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit January 23, 1997, 95-3863 (Samuel Lee McDonald v. Michael Bowersox)

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Samuel Lee McDonald, a death row inmate in Missouri state prison, was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury on February 24, 1982, for the May 16,1981 shooting of an off-duty police officer. After repeated filings for postconviction relief in Missouri state court, McDonald filed his first federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus in 1989.