Gray v. Norman, No. 12-3471 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the district court's denial of his habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. 2254. The court concluded that the state court applied the correct legal standard, a totality-of-the-circumstances test, in determining the voluntariness of his confession and reached a reasonable conclusion under the circumstances. The court also concluded that petitioner did not satisfy the elements of a Sixth Amendment claim under Strickland v. Washington where his ineffective-assistance claim was not an unreasonable application of clearly established law. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment of the district court.
Court Description: Prisoner case - habeas. The Missouri court applied the correct legal standard in reviewing the voluntariness of Gray's confession and the conclusion that it was admissible was reasonable under the circumstances; the Missouri court's rejection of Gray's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was not an unreasonable application of clearly established law.
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