Willie Arthur Thigpen v. Duane Cory

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

At a jury trial in the state court, petitioner, Willie Arthur Thigpen, was found guilty of armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. After exhausting his rights of direct appeal, he sought a writ of habeas corpus in the district court. He argued that he was denied constitutional due process by the admission of the robbery victim’s in-court identification of him. He also argued that a number of state law errors made by the *894trial court deprived him of a fundamentally fair trial. The district court denied the writ, and…