HOUSTON v. LOCKHART

No. 90-2592.

982 F.2d 1246 (1993)

Mikel W. HOUSTON, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William McNova Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, AR, argued, for appellant.

Olan Warren Reeves, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, JOHN R. GIBSON, FAGG, BOWMAN, WOLLMAN, MAGILL, BEAM, LOKEN, HANSEN, and MORRIS S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, En Banc.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge, with whom RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, FAGG, WOLLMAN, BEAM, HANSEN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, join.

Arkansas inmate Mikel W. Houston appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing. Houston claims that, because of the ineffective assistance of his trial counsel, favorable polygraph test results were not admitted...

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