VANCLEAVE v. NORRIS

No. 97-1586.

150 F.3d 926 (1998)

James D. VANCLEAVE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1998.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied September 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Todd L. Newton, AR, argued, for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied September 29, 1998.

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

James D. Vancleave was convicted of capital murder in 1978 and is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. After exhausting state court remedies, Vancleave filed a pro se federal habeas petition in 1984, which the district court dismissed in January 1987. In June 1996, after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty...

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