Gary Dwayne Bruce v. Cal Terhune California Attorney General

In this appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus arising out of a prosecution for lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, we must decide whether the state court unreasonably ap*952plied clearly established Federal law on burden of proof and whether sufficient evidence exists to support the conviction.

I

A California Superior Court jury convicted Gary D. Bruce of six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child under the age of fourteen in violation of Cal.Penal Code § 288.

Bruce’s prosecution stemmed from two alleged instances of molestation. The first was in…