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ARMSTRONG v. IOWA

No. 04-2071.

418 F.3d 924 (2005)

Tony Dion James Beach ARMSTRONG, Petitioner—Appellant, v. State of IOWA, Respondent—Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 17, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who represented the appellant was Frank Burnette of Des Moines, Iowa.

Thomas W. Andrews, Assistant Attorney General,Des Moines, IA (Thomas J. Miller, on brief), for appellee.

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, RILEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

LOKEN, Chief Judge.

Tony Armstrong was convicted by an Iowa court of second-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. The Supreme Court of Iowa dismissed his direct appeal as frivolous, and the trial court denied his application for state post-conviction relief. Armstrong then filed this pro se petition for federal habeas corpus relief. The district court1 dismissed the petition with prejudice, concluding that Armstrong...

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