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981427P.pdf   07/26/1999  Henry B. Tatum  v.  Dave Dormire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  98-1427
   Western District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - habeas. Defendant's offered instructions allowing 
   the jury to consider sudden passion in a noncapital murder case 
   were not supported by the evidence, and the trial court did not 
   violate his due process rights by refusing to give them.