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HOLSOMBACK v. WHITE

No. 96-6211.

133 F.3d 1382 (1998)

John Wayne HOLSOMBACK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. J.D. WHITE, Warden, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 26, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Goggans, Montgomery, AL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., Beth Slate Poe and Jeff Sessions, Assts. Atty. Gens., Montgomery, AL, for Respondents-Appellees.

Before COX and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and HUNT, District Judge.

BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

John Wayne Holsomback, an Alabama prisoner, appeals from the district court's dismissal of his pro se habeas petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Holsomback was convicted of first-degree sodomy by an Alabama state court and received a 25-year sentence. The prosecution's case consisted entirely of the testimony of Holsomback's ten-year-old son, Jeffrey. Jeffrey testified that from the time of his parents' divorce in 1982...

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