OXFORD, RICHARD
General Information
DOB: September 12, 1956
Race: White
Gender: Male
Crime and Trial
County of conviction: Platte
Number of counts: Two
Race of victim: White/white
Gender of victim: Male/female
Date of crime: November 1986 (precise date unknown)
Date of sentencing: October 28, 1988
Date of execution: August 21, 1996
Legal status:
Trial Counsel:
John Lozano
Last counsel of record:
Kent E. Gipson
Public Interest Litigation Clinic
305 E. 63rd St.
Kansas City, MO 64113
816-363-2795
Last judicial decision:
--Stay of execution granted, then vacated following dismissal of certiorari. See Oxford v. Bowersox, 517 U.S. 1252 (Jun. 11, 1996), certiorari dismissed Oxford v. Bowersox, 518 U.S. 1031 (Jul. 1, 1996).
Reported opinions:
--Conviction, sentence, and denial of post-conviction relief affirmed by State v. Oxford, 791 S.W.2d 396 (Mo. banc 1990), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1055 (1991).
--Denial of habeas affirmed by Oxford v. Delo, 59 F.3d 741 (8th Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1124 (1996).
--Motion to file a third petition for habeas denied by Oxford v. Bowersox, 86 F.3d 127 (8th Cir. 1996), stay of execution granted, 517 U.S. 1252 (1996), cert. dismissed, 518 U.S. 1031 (1996).
Significant legal issues:
--trial counsel's failure to present mitigating evidence concerning Mr. Oxford's mental illness and severe abuse suffered as a child
--procedural default of claims regarding trial counsel's ineffectiveness stemming from Mr. Oxford's failure to "verify" his amended petition under the then-applicable Missouri Supreme Court Rule 29.15
--constitutionality of AEDPA's restrictions on successive petitions