ANDREWS v. NORRIS

No. 96-1767.

108 F.3d 163 (1997)

Joe Kenneth ANDREWS, Appellant, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie Bernarde Miller, Little Rock, AR, argued, for Appellant.

Darnisa Evans Johnson, Little Rock, AR, argued, for Appellee.

Before MURPHY and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges, and KYLE, District Judge.


MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Joe Kenneth Andrews appeals from a judgment2 dismissing his third petition for habeas corpus because it was procedurally barred. We affirm.

Andrews was convicted in Arkansas in 1990 of murder and sentenced to forty years in prison. No appeal was filed, and Andrews claims that his attorney ignored his instruction to file one. In 1991, Andrews petitioned the federal court for a writ of habeas corpus, but the...

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