Laquince Hogan v. Wendy Kelley

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Laquince Hogan appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.

On three occasions in June and July 2008, a confidential informant for the Ash-down, Arkansas, police department bought drugs from Hogan. On August 5, Officer Tommy Stuard obtained a warrant for Hogan’s arrest based on the controlled buys. The same day, Officer Doyle Couch applied for and was issued a warrant to search Hogan’s home for a “dark colored handgun with a long barrel” that had been used in a homicide four days earlier. With…