Cary Nelson Rehbein v. Harold W. Clarke John Dahm

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Cary Nelson Rehbein appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his third federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

I, BACKGROUND

In 1983, Rehbein pleaded guilty to murdering Carl Fisher during the course of a robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rehbein did not appeal his conviction or the life sentence. Instead, in 1988, Reh-bein filed a motion for postconviction relief in state court. The state district court denied relief, and the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the denial in State v. Rehbein, 235 Neb. 536, 455 N.W.2d 821 (1990).

Thereafter,…