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053963P.pdf   09/05/2006  Dale Helmig  v.  Mike Kemna
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3963
                          and No:  05-4013
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED][Loken, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. District court erred in granting habeas relief on claim that Helmig's constitutional rights were violated when the jurors in his state murder trial obtained and consulted during deliberations a Missouri highway map that was not introduced into evidence at trial; Helmig failed to prove prejudice because there was no reasonable probability that a reasonable juror would have reached a different verdict without the map; district court did not err in rejecting Helmig's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, as the state courts' handling of the issues was neither contrary to nor an unreasonable interpretation of clearly established Sixth Amendment precedents.