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- Title: Bracken v. Dormire
- Author : Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 05, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Submitted: November 14, 2000 Dave Dormire, Superintendent of the Jefferson City Correctional Center (the State), appeals the District Court's conditional grant of habeas corpus relief to Antoine Bracken, who was convicted in 1994 of second-degree murder and armed criminal action and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of life imprisonment. The State's appeal challenges the District Court's determination that Bracken's habeas petition properly raised the claim upon which it granted relief--that the trial court did not expressly find that Bracken's confession was voluntarily given before the court admitted it into evidence. While Bracken presented a general argument in his petition that his confession was ""coerced,"" we find that he did not raise the voluntariness claim upon which the District Court granted relief. The claim is procedurally defaulted and we reverse the District Court.