Tommie Warren Overstreet v. Paul D. Caspari, Superintendent, M.E.C.C. William L. Webster, Missouri Attorney General

Tommie W. Overstreet appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his second 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as an abuse of the writ. We affirm.

In 1984, a jury found Overstreet guilty of receiving stolen property; he was sentenced as a persistent offender to a fifteen-year prison term. In a separate trial, a jury found Overstreet guilty of stealing and second degree robbery; he was sentenced as a persistent offender to consecutive prison terms of thirty and fifteen years. The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions. State v. Overstreet, 694 S.W.2d 491, 496 (Mo.Ct.App.1985) (stealing and…