CULKIN v. PURKETT

No. 94-2195.

45 F.3d 1229 (1995)

William CULKIN, Appellant, v. James D. PURKETT; Jeremiah Nixon, Attorney General, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1995.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam J. Sipple, Clayton, MO, for appellant.

Frank A. Jung, Jefferson City, MO, for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and LOKEN, Circuit Judge.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

William Culkin appeals from the judgment of the District Court1 dismissing his petition for 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

I.

In 1987, Culkin was convicted by a jury in a Missouri court of two counts of sodomy and one count of rape against his ten-year-old niece, and he was sentenced to two concurrent twelve-year terms on the sodomy convictions and a consecutive twelve...

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