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102434P.pdf   08/24/2012  Terrick Nooner  v.  Ray Hobbs
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2434
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bye, Circuit Judge, and Smith
   Camp, District Judge]
Prisoner case - habeas. For the court's opinion in Nooner's first habeas action, see Nooner v. Norris, 402 F.3d 801 (8th Cir. 2005). District court did not err in finding that the expert testimony upon which Nooner's successive habeas relied was not new evidence; nor did the court err in finding the evidence provided by certain witnesses in connection with Nooner's actual innocence claim was not credible or reliable; having determined that Nooner's evidence is not reliable or new, it is unnecessary for the court to conduct a further Schlup analysis; in the alternative, considering the proffered evidence in the context of the trial evidence, the evidence was not particularly convincing and would have been easily marginalized; as a result, Nooner failed to show that it was more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.