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043827P.pdf   02/08/2006  William L. Rousan  v.  Donald P. Roper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-3827
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Arnold and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. Claim state trial court erred in striking three potential jurors for cause rejected; claim evidence was insufficient to support murder conviction rejected; no error in admitting photographs of victims' bodies; state court finding that counsel was not ineffective in deciding not to move to strike portion of confession was not erroneous; claim prosecutor made an improper penalty phase argument rejected; instruction on accomplice liability was not erroneous; instruction on statutory aggravating factors was not erroneous; claim state court erred in rejecting instruction on specific non-statutory mitigating circumstances rejected.