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*The Honorable Danny C. Reeves, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, sitting by
designation.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION
File Name: 05a0526n.06
Filed: June 20, 2005
No. 04-1138
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
JEFFERY KNAPP,
Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
HAROLD WHITE,
Respondents-Appellee.
/
ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
BEFORE: CLAY and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; REEVES, District Judge.*
CLAY, Circuit Judge. Petitioner Jeffrey L. Knapp appeals the district court’s order of
December 29, 2003, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, on his
claims that (1) the trial court improperly instructed the jury on an element of the offense for which
he was convicted, (2) the prosecutor engaged in various acts of misconduct, and (3) his counsel was
constitutionally ineffective. See Knapp v. White, 296 F. Supp. 2d 766 (E.D. Mich. 2003) (opinion
and order denying petition for writ of habeas corpus).
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Following our extensive review of the record, all applicable law, and the parties’ briefs, we
conclude that the district court properly denied Knapp’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Because issuing a full opinion would serve no jurisprudential purpose, we AFFIRM the district
court’s order denying Knapp’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the basis of the district court’s
opinion and order of December 29, 2003.
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