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• United States v. Nichols, 841 F.2d 1485 (10th Cir. 1988)
  …need only be “financially unable to obtain counsel.” United States v. De Hernandez, 745 F. 2d 1305, 1310 (10th Cir.1984). Financial inability is a lesser standard than indigency. United States v. Harris, 707 F. 2d 653, 660 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 997, 104 S.Ct. 495, 78 L.Ed.2d 688 (1983). A broad range of considerations is relevant to whether a defendant is financially unable to obtain counsel. United States v. Barcelon, 833 F. 2d 894, 897 (10th Cir.1987). For example, whether or not assets…
• Blair v. Armontrout, 916 F.2d 1310 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …January 1, 1979. Baker was in effect at the time of trial.” Id. at 96 (emphasis added). Baker was decided in 1982 and Betts’ trial took place in 1980. Later the same year, in State v. Goddard, 649 S.W. 2d 882, 884-89 (Mo.) (en banc), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 997, 104 S.Ct. 495, 78 L.Ed.2d 689 (1983), the Missouri Supreme Court decided that Baker was only prospective. The defendant was convicted of first-degree murder, after being charged and acquitted of capital murder, for a murder and robbery committed in…

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• Doyle J. Williams v. Armontrout, 912 F.2d 924 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …ew trials.”); State v. Williams, 652 S.W. 2d 102, 117-18 (Mo.1983) (en banc) (Welliver, J., dissenting); State v. Goddard, 649 S.W. 2d 882, 890-92 (Mo.) (en banc) (Welliver, J., dissenting in an opinion in which Seiler, J., concurred), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 997, 104 S.Ct. 495, 78 L.Ed.2d 689 (1983).2 The remaining question is whether the facts of Williams’ case. could support a first-degree murder instruction under Missouri law. See Hopper v. Evans, 456 U.S. 605, 610-12, 102 S.Ct. 2049, 2052-53, 72 L.Ed.2…

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