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RILEY v. LOCKHART

No. 83-1238.

726 F.2d 421 (1984)

George RILEY, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1984.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by Velda P. West, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

George Riley, pro se.

Before ROSS, ARNOLD and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

George Riley was convicted of first-degree murder after a jury trial in the Pulaski County, Arkansas Circuit Court in March 1971. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court, alleging that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on lesser included offenses. The court affirmed the conviction upon a finding that the trial court had offered to instruct on second-degree murder, but declined to so charge the...

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