Michael L. Schawitsch v. Jerry Burt, Warden

BYE, Circuit Judge.

In 1999 a state court jury convicted Michael L. Schawitsch of robbing, on two consecutive days, a convenience store and a restaurant. Iowa state courts rejected Schawitsch’s appeals. Schawitsch raised two grounds in his petition for federal habeas corpus relief: ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to object to improper cross-examination; and a factual finding that a photo lineup was not suggestive or supported by clear and convincing evidence. The district court 1 denied his peti tion. We determine Sehawitsch has not met his required burdens on neither issue on…