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111092P.pdf 08/20/2012 Kimber Edwards v. Donald Roper
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1092
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Murphy and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. District court did not err in rejecting Batson
challenges as the Missouri Supreme Court's decision on the issue was not
based on an unreasonable determination of the facts and was not contrary
to, or an unreasonable application of, the Supreme Court's decisions on
the issue; district court did not err in rejecting Edwards' argument that the
prosecutor made impermissible comments on his failure to testify as the
Missouri Supreme Court's rejection of the claim was neither contrary to
nor an unreasonable interpretation of Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609
(1965); Missouri Supreme Court's determination that the trial court's
failure to give a no-adverse-inference instruction was harmless under
Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) was not contrary to, or an
unreasonable application of, Supreme Court decisions; district court did
not err in denying Edwards' request for funds to conduct a mental exam.