Ronald Beachum v. Robert Tansy

CHRISTENSEN, Senior District Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Ronald Beachum, a state prisoner, appeals from a final order of the federal district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He contends that his present imprisonment for state crime convictions violates his rights to due process, a fair trial, equal protection, confrontation, and effective assistance of counsel. Finding no error of constitutional dimensions in these convictions, we affirm denial of the writ.

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STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Shortly after midnight on July 8, 1980, Kathy McGuire, a student nurse living alone in a…