WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Larry Norris, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (the State), appeals from the district court's judgment granting Marion Albert Pruett's petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We reverse.
I.
In 1979, Pruett was released from a 23-year federal penitentiary sentence for bank robbery, apparently in exchange for his testimony against an underworld figure with whom he was serving...
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