ROBINSON v. LaFLEUR

No. 99-3143.

225 F.3d 950 (2000)

Spencer ROBINSON, Appellant, v. Gothriel LaFLEUR, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah K. Ellis, St. Paul, MN, argued, for Appellant.

J. Michael Richardson, Minneapolis, MN, argued, for Appellee.

Before MURPHY, HEANEY and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Spencer Robinson appeals the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In April 1994, Robinson was convicted following a jury trial in Minnesota state court of first degree felony murder. Briefly, the testimony at trial revealed the following.

In September 1993, Robinson and a few friends traveled from Detroit to Minneapolis to sell crack cocaine...

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