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WATERBURY v. NIX

No. 90-1872.

935 F.2d 943 (1991)

Edward WATERBURY, Appellant, v. Crispus NIX, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 5, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Meyer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for appellant.

Thomas D. McGrane, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant Edward Waterbury appeals the district court's1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition in which he seeks relief from his life sentence without parole for first degree murder. The district court determined that Waterbury had procedurally defaulted on his claims of error in various jury instructions given at trial because he had failed to preserve the claims by means of contemporaneous objection as required...

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