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041832P.pdf   02/17/2005  Clyde Phillip Cox  v.  Ken Burger
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1832
   Southern District of Iowa   
   Habeas Case - State Habeas. Admission of testimony from first trial 
   after witness was unavailable for second trial did not violate 
   confrontation clause, because declarant was unavailable and statement 
   was reliable. Change of trial strategy did not alter motive. District court 
   did not err in reviewing claim under deferential standard of AEDPA. 
   District court did not err in denying ineffective assistance claim or 
   denying an evidentiary hearing. Recantation claim was procedurally 
   barred, as it was not raised in appeal from denial of state postconviction 
   relief.[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Beam and Benton, Circuit 
   Judges]