Lana L. Anderson v. Bryan Goeke, Superintendent of Renz Correctional Institution

BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Lana Anderson appeals the district court’s 1 denial of her petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Anderson was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the contract killing of her husband, John Anderson. Anderson raises three issues on appeak (1) the prosecutor denied her due process by introducing allegedly irrelevant, inflammatory and overly prejudicial evidence of bad character and uncharged crimes and commenting thereon; (2) her trial counsel violated her sixth amendment right to effective…