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143495P.pdf   07/20/2016  Billie Allen  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3495
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Melloy, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. Given the state of the law at the time of Allen's 
   capital murder trial, it was not professionally unreasonable for counsel 
   to forego an objection to the district court's procedure for identifying 
   jurors by number; the district court did not err in denying this habeas 
   petition without an evidentiary hearing.