Bates v. Grant

Thomas Bates appeals from the district court’s order dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2244. We affirm.

I. Factual and Procedural History

In 1991, Bates was convicted by a Worcester Superior Court jury on multiple charges of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen, indecent assault and battery on a child over the age of fourteen, soliciting a child to pose in a state of sexual conduct and soliciting a child to pose in a state of nudity. Bates’s victims were his five adopted children.

Following an unsuccessful motion for new trial, Bates…