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MARTIN v. NORRIS

No. 95-3141.

82 F.3d 211 (1996)

John Douglas MARTIN, Appellant, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Craig Lambert, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellant.

Vada Berger, Little Rock, AR, argued (Teena L. White and Winston Bryant, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, FLOYD R. GIBSON, and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

In 1992, a jury convicted John Martin in Arkansas state court of kidnapping and first-degree murder. On direct appeal, he argued that there was insufficient corroboration under Arkansas law of the testimony of his alleged accomplice, see Ark.Code Ann. § 16-89-111(e)(1), and therefore that the evidence was insufficient under Arkansas law to sustain his convictions. He also argued that the state trial court improperly...

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