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071112P.pdf   03/13/2008  Gayle Steele  v.  USA
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1112
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Hansen, Circuit Judge]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Due process does not guarantee a constitutional
   right to counsel for a litigant seeking to file a certiorari petition to the
   Supreme Court of the United States, and counsel's failure to file a
   petition following Steele's direct appeal did not constitute ineffective
   assistance of counsel; alleged violations of the court's Amended Criminal
   Justice Act Plan and Rule 44(a) did not deprive Steele of due process of
   law and did not give rise to a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel;
   even if a right to have counsel file a certiorari petition existed, Steele
   failed to show that she suffered prejudice from her counsel's failure to
   file a petition.