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102579P.pdf   09/18/2012  Marcellus Williams  v.  Donald Roper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2579
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Melloy, Circuit Judge]
Prisoner case - Habeas. The Supreme Court of Missouri's ruling that Williams did not establish prejudice from his attorney's allegedly deficient performance at sentencing was neither contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law; the district court order granting petitioner a writ of habeas corpus is reversed, and the matter is remanded with directions to dismiss the petition for the writ and enter judgment for the respondent. Judge Melloy, dissenting.