Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit November 19, 1999, 98-2593 (Robert L. Lingle v. State of Iowa David Scurr)

WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

Robert Lingle appeals the district court’s

1

denial of his petition for habeas

*1025

corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

I.

Lingle is serving a 52-year prison sentence based on his conviction of two counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and one count of indecent contact with a child.