DYAS v. LOCKHART

No. 88-2124.

878 F.2d 1105 (1989)

Jimmie Lee DYAS, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Winningham, Newport, Ark., for appellant.

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

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


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is our third review of appellant Jimmie Lee Dyas's petition for federal habeas corpus relief. In Dyas v. Lockhart, 705 F.2d 993 (8th Cir.1983), we remanded the case to the District Court, concluding that the family relationship between the prosecutor and the state judge who presided over Dyas's trial on a capital murder charge warranted inquiry into whether Dyas had personally waived the judge's...

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