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SIMMONS v. LOCKHART

No. PB-C-83-411.

709 F.Supp. 1457 (1989)

Thomas SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

March 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Gillean, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ark., Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

Jim Hunter Birch, Little Rock, Ark., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

Thomas Winford Simmons was tried in the Circuit Court of Crawford County, Arkansas for the murder of a married couple, their landlord and a Fort Smith, Arkansas police officer. In unanimously affirming his conviction, the Supreme Court of Arkansas stated, "We know of no other case involving multiple murders so cold blooded, so brutal, so lacking in any trace of humanity, as those...

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