CAMPBELL v. NORRIS

Nos. 97-1223, 97-1329.

146 F.3d 606 (1998)

Marty Lynn CAMPBELL, Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1998.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied August 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly K. Hill, Asst. Arkansas Atty.Gen., Little Rock, AR, argued (Todd L. Newton, on the brief), for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Walter Craig Lambert, Little Rock, AR, argued, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Before FAGG, BEAM and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied August 27, 1998.

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Larry Norris (the State of Arkansas) appeals the district court's grant of a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to Marty Lynn Campbell. Campbell was sentenced, as a habitual offender, to thirty years' imprisonment for theft by receiving stolen property. The district court found that Campbell's trial counsel was ineffective in failing to challenge the...

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