FORD v. LOCKHART

No. 89-1354.

904 F.2d 458 (1990)

Dwight FORD, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Q. Byrum Hurst, Jr., Hot Springs, Ark., for appellant.

C. Kent Jolliff, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

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


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Dwight Ford appeals from the district court's1 order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Ford, at the age of sixteen, entered negotiated guilty pleas to three counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of rape. He was sentenced to five concurrent terms of life imprisonment. On appeal, Ford argues that the court should have granted his petition for...

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