William Matthew Kerr v. Paul D. Caspari

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

William Matthew Kerr, a Missouri prisoner convicted of sodomizing a three-and-a-half year old girl, appeals the district court’s 1 judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Kerr contends that the conviction violated his due process rights because evidence of a prior act of child sex abuse was admitted at the trial and because the State’s evidence was constitutionally insufficient to convict. We affirm.

I

On the morning of February 17, 1987, the victim left her house and walked two houses down the street to play with Kerr’s son, Paul. She returned home about…