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DYAS v. LOCKHART

No. 82-2016.

705 F.2d 993 (1983)

Jimmie Lee DYAS, Appellant, v. Art LOCKHART, Commissioner of Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 14, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Petty, Lee A. Biggs, III, Searcy, Ark., for appellant.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Leslie M. Powell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before HEANEY, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 14, 1983.

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1975, habeas petitioner Jimmie Lee Dyas was convicted of capital felony murder by a jury in the Little River (Arkansas) Circuit Court. Dyas was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The presiding judge at Dyas' trial was the now deceased Judge Bobby Steele, who was the uncle of the Prosecuting Attorney and the brother and father of the two...

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