CARSON v. DIR. OF IOWA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONAL SERV.

No. 97-4230.

150 F.3d 973 (1998)

Jason David CARSON, Appellant, v. DIRECTOR OF THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1998.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon M. Kinnamon, Iowa City, IA, argued, for Appellant.

Thomas D. McGrane, Des Moines, IA, argued (Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, ROSS and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

Jason David Carson appeals from a judgment of the district court1 denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Supp. II 1996). We affirm.

Around 2:00 a.m. on April 26, 1994, Carson, who had been drinking, was driving his car about 110 miles an hour on a county road. The car left the road at a curve and overturned in a ditch. A passenger in the car died and another suffered serious...

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