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JOHNSON v. BURKE

No. 89-1684.

903 F.2d 1056 (1990)

Lawrence D. JOHNSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Luella BURKE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Tarnow (argued), Detroit, Mich., for petitioner-appellant.

Thomas Chambers (argued), Office of the Pros. Atty., Detroit, Mich., Suzanne L. Wilhelm, Office of the Atty. Gen., Appellate Div., Lansing, Mich., for respondent-appellee.

Before KRUPANSKY and MILBURN, Circuit Judges; and THOMAS, Senior District Judge.

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Lawrence David Johnson, a state prisoner in Michigan, appeals the dismissal by the district court of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I.

A.

Johnson was convicted by a jury on December 6, 1974, of one count of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction on direct...

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