Robert Sanders v. Myrna Trickey, Superintendent, Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, and William L. Webster, Missouri Attorney General

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Robert Sanders (appellant), a Missouri state prisoner, appeals from a judgment entered July 28, 1988 in the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, Clyde S. Cahill, District Judge, which adopted the report and recommendation of Magistrate William S. Bahn and denied appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Appellant was convicted of first degree robbery, Mo.Rev.Stat. § 569.020 (1978), on December 21, 1982 following a jury trial. He was sentenced to life imprisonment as a persistent offender.

Appellant commenced…