TRAN v. LOCKHART

No. 87-1814EA.

849 F.2d 1064 (1988)

Dung Thai TRAN, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director Arkansas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 13, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan M. Rogers, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Theodore Holder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before FAGG, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 31, 1988.

HANSON, Senior District Judge.

Dung Thai Tran appeals the District Court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus. In the petition Tran asserts that a guilty plea he entered to a charge of capital felony murder should be set aside on the grounds that his unfamiliarity with the English language at the time of the plea, when combined with the actions of his court-appointed counsel, resulted in a violation...

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