WAINWRIGHT v. NORRIS

No. PB-C-92-211.

958 F.Supp. 426 (1996)

Kirt WAINWRIGHT, Petitioner, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

December 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wesley Hall, Jr., Walter Craig Lambert, E. Alvin Schay, Little Rock, AR, for Petitioner.

Olan W. Reeves, Arkansas Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Respondent.


ORDER DISMISSING PETITION

EISELE, District Judge.

Before the Court is Petitioner Kirt Wainwright's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, requesting that the Court vacate Mr. Wainwright's sentence of death. The Court has concluded that it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction and, therefore, will dismiss the petition.

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Background

Mr. Wainwright was convicted and sentenced to death for the capital murder of Barbara Smith...

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