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063378P.pdf   12/26/2007  Alan Echols  v.  Mike Kemna
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3378
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Missouri's escape rule is firmly established,
   regularly followed and readily ascertainable when applied, and the district
   court did not err in determining that the rule was an adequate and
   independent state ground barring federal review of Echol's habeas claim.