PRICHARD v. LOCKHART

No. 92-2013.

990 F.2d 352 (1993)

Charles Dee PRICHARD, Appellee, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Jeff Vining, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, AR (Winston Bryant, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellant.

Demaris A. Hart, Texarkana, AR, for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, WOLLMAN, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

A.L. Lockhart, the Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeals the magistrate judge's1 grant of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) habeas relief to Charles D. Prichard, an Arkansas prisoner convicted and sentenced for state drug offenses. The magistrate judge found that Prichard's trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the sentencing court's use of an out-of-state marijuana conviction to...

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