FERDINAND v. DORMIRE

No. 98-4202.

212 F.3d 473 (2000)

Ricky E. FERDINAND, Appellant, v. Dave DORMIRE, Superintendent; Jeremiah (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, State of Missouri, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed May 8, 2000.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, Lee's Summit, Mo, argued, for appellant.

Stacy L. Anderson, Jefferson City, Mo, argued (Wade Thomas, on the brief), for appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, BRIGHT, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.


HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Ricky E. Ferdinand, a Missouri prisoner, appeals the district court's1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. We affirm.

I.

On January 12, 1994, a jury found Ferdinand guilty of attempted forcible sodomy, in violation of Mo.Rev.Stat. §§ 564.011.1 (attempt) and 566.060.1 (forcible sodomy). He had committed the offense on August 5, 1992. Ferdinand was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment...

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