POLITZ, Circuit Judge:
Larry Donahue appeals the grant of a writ of habeas corpus issued under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Concluding that relief was predicated on an issue not properly before the district court but finding that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction, we modify and, as so modified, affirm the grant of habeas relief.
BACKGROUND
On the morning of May 27, 1988, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff William Daniel, in plain clothes...
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