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111092P.pdf   08/20/2012  Kimber Edwards  v.  Donald Roper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1092
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Murphy and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. District court did not err in rejecting Batson
   challenges as the Missouri Supreme Court's decision on the issue was not
   based on an unreasonable determination of the facts and was not contrary
   to, or an unreasonable application of, the Supreme Court's decisions on
   the issue; district court did not err in rejecting Edwards' argument that the
   prosecutor made impermissible comments on his failure to testify as the
   Missouri Supreme Court's rejection of the claim was neither contrary to
   nor an unreasonable interpretation of Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609
   (1965); Missouri Supreme Court's determination that the trial court's
   failure to give a no-adverse-inference instruction was harmless under
   Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) was not contrary to, or an
   unreasonable application of, Supreme Court decisions; district court did
   not err in denying Edwards' request for funds to conduct a mental exam.