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SWINDLER v. LOCKHART

No. 88-2387.

885 F.2d 1342 (1989)

John Edward SWINDLER, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Commissioner of the Arkansas Dept. of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 26, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 6, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman Ragar, Jr., Van Buren, Ark., for appellant.

Jack Gillean, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before BOWMAN and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 6, 1989.

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

John Edward Swindler appeals from the District Court's1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.

On September 24, 1976, Swindler, in flight from South Carolina where he was wanted for the murders of two teenagers, stopped off at a service station in Fort Smith, Arkansas apparently to ask directions...

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