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994202P.pdf   04/05/2001  Antoine Bracken  v.  Dave Dormire
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  99-4202
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Prisoner case - habeas. Claim that state trial court erred when it 
   failed to make a specific finding regarding the voluntariness of 
   Bracken's confession, in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment 
   due process rights, was procedurally defaulted, and the district court 
   erred in granting relief on this claim; dissent by Judge Richard S. Arnold.