James Turner, Jr. v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

In this case Turner challenges the district court’s 1 denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Appellant contends that even where the state possesses no reasonable leads it has an obligation to conduct an investigation in order to identify an “informant.” We affirm the district court’s denial of the petition.

Appellant was convicted of five counts of sale of a controlled substance in the St. Louis Circuit Court. His conviction was affirmed by the Missouri Court of Appeals. 2 The facts giving rise to the above conviction may be…