FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Stanley D. Lingar, a Missouri death row inmate, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1994). We affirm.
On the evening of January 5, 1985, Lingar, who was 22, and a friend, eighteen-year-old David Smith, were drinking and driving around Doniphan, Missouri. After stopping at the home of Smith's girlfriend, the two men came upon a group of hitchhiking teens and picked...
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