Odoms

MEMORANDUM **

Don Odoms (“Odoms”) appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habe-as corpus, advancing numerous grounds on which he contends he is entitled to relief from his convictions for kidnaping in the first degree, rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution, robbery in the first degree, operating a motor vehicle in violation of a habitual-offender order and felony driving while revoked. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 . For the reasons briefly summarized below, we affirm the district court’s rejection of each of Odoms’ claims for relief.

1. Sufficiency of Evidence

Odoms contends that the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to support his convictions for kidnaping, rape, sodomy and robbery. That argument was considered and rejected by the Oregon Court of Appeals on Odoms’ direct appeal. On that score Odoms fails to meet the sufficiency of evidence standard articulated by Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979):

2. Prosecutorial Misconduct

Odoms’ claim that the prosecutor committed misconduct by failing to dismiss the entire…