WHITMORE v. LOCKHART

No. 92-3307.

8 F.3d 614 (1993)

Jonas H. WHITMORE, Appellant, v. A.L. LOCKHART, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 25, 1993.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied December 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Allen Coleman, West Memphis, AR, argued (Therese H. Green, Memphis, TN, and Didi Sallings, Little Rock, AR, on the brief), for appellant.

Pamela Rumpz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, AR, argued (Kyle R. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, LOKEN, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied December 13, 1993.*

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Jonas H. Whitmore was convicted in Arkansas state court of capital murder in the death of a sixty-two-year-old woman, Essie Mae Black, committed on August 14, 1986. Whitmore was sentenced by the jury to death by lethal injection. The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed his conviction and his sentence on direct appeal, Whitmore v. State...

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