DYAS v. LOCKHART

No. 84-1524.

771 F.2d 1144 (1985)

Jimmie Lee DYAS, Appellant, v. Art LOCKHART, Commissioner of the Ark. Dept. of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Holmes, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

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

Before HEANEY and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and WANGELIN, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 15, 1985.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Jimmie Lee Dyas appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For reversal he argues that the district court erred in deciding that Dyas's trial was not prejudiced by the familial relationship between the trial judge and the prosecutor, and that the verdict should have been set aside because of the ineffective...

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