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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.