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023967P.pdf   08/14/2003  Mark Whitehead  v.  David Dormire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3967
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - habeas. Evidence was more than sufficient to 
   support the state courts' findings that Whitehead acted with the 
   purpose of causing serious injury as required for a second 
   degree murder conviction; claim that counsel was ineffective 
   in failing to call a forensic consultant to buttress his version 
   of the shooting rejected, as the record from an evidentiary 
   hearing showed the expert's proposed testimony would not 
   have supported Whitehead's theory and may have actually 
   supported the state's.