Antoine L. Bracken v. Dave Dormire

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Dave Dormiré, 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 ha-beas 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…