TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
This habeas petition presents an unusual question of collateral estoppel. In 2000, Kip Antonio Smith was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor child. But only fourteen months earlier, in a civil deprived-child action, a jury had rejected the state's allegations that he had sexually abused a child in a manner that was shocking and heinous or which caused severe harm or injury. In his state appeal, Smith unsuccessfully argued that the jury's...
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