William Dorsey, Jr. v. Fred Burnette

William Dorsey, a Georgia state prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Before the state courts 1

Dorsey was charged with burglary, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, rape, kidnaping, false imprisonment, pimping, theft by taking, and statutory rape based on alleged acts with a 13-year-old girl, “T.H.” At a jury trial, the state presented the following evidence:

[I]n June 2002, T.H. ran away from home with a 30-year-old acquaintance, Jason Mobuary.…