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WALKER v. LOCKHART

No. LR-C-81-280.

598 F.Supp. 1410 (1984)

James Dean WALKER, Petitioner, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, W.D.

December 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar Fendler, Blytheville, Ark., Bill Bristow, Jonesboro, Ark., L. Gene Worsham, Chip Baker, Little Rock, Ark., Paul N. Halvonik, Berkley, Cal., for petitioner.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., State of Ark., Theodore G. Holder, A. Carter Hardage, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

I. HISTORY OF LITIGATION

James Dean Walker was charged with murdering a young North Little Rock Police officer on April 16, 1963. At his trial a year later, Walker pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. As Judge Henley aptly observed in a later habeas corpus opinion, "Walker did not testify at the first trial and the Court gets the impression from reading the transcript of the trial...

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