Hassan Latif Khaalid v. Michael Bowersox

WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

Hassan Latif Khaalid appeals frotn the district court’s 2 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

I

In April of 1993, Khaalid was convicted by a Missouri jury of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. He received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of probation or parole on the murder conviction and a consecutive thirty-year term of imprisonment for the armed criminal action conviction. A person commits the crime of first-degree murder under Missouri law “if he knowingly causes the death of another person…