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WHITE v. LOCKHART

No. 87-2048.

857 F.2d 1218 (1988)

Robert Ross WHITE, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director Arkansas Department of Corrections, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Baker, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

J. Brent Standridge, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and STUART, Senior District Judge.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Robert Ross White, an Arkansas state prisoner, appeals the district court's1 dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because we are convinced that the only issue before us, the failure to grant a continuance, is not constitutional error, we affirm.

While on parole in 1984, White was charged as a repeat offender with second-degree forgery by writing to himself...

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