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123465P.pdf 08/26/2014 Raphael Donnell v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3465
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bye and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Habeas. For the opinion in Donnell's direct appeal, see
U.S. v. Donnell, 596 F.3d 913 (8th Cir. 2010). To warrant Section 2255
relief, Donnell must establish that appellate counsel was constitutionally
ineffective for failing to submit a citation to King v. United States, 595
F.3d 844 (8th Cir. 2010) for the direct appeal panel's consideration or to
request supplemental briefing when this court published its decision in
King after Donnell's direct appeal had been argued and submitted for
decision; the court declines to rule that Strickland requires an appellate
attorney to read advance sheets and consider newly-decided cases in the
weeks or months after a direct appeal is fully briefed, argued and
submitted for a decision. Judge Bye, concurring in part and dissenting in
part.