ROBERTS v. NORRIS

Case No. 5:04CV00004.

526 F.Supp.2d 926 (2007)

Karl ROBERTS, Petitioner, v. Larry NORRIS, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

December 13, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce D. Eddy, Jennifer Morris Horan, Julie C. Brain, Federal Public Defender's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Petitioner.

Brent P. Gasper, Kelly K. Hill, Arkansas Attorney General's Office, Jeffrey A. Weber, Gary Eubanks & Associates, Little Rock, AR, for Respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

RICHARD G. KOPF, District Judge.

Presenting a fascinating "exhaustion" issue, this is a case brought by Karl Douglas Roberts ("Roberts") under the federal habeas corpus statute. He seeks to avoid the death penalty. Roberts raises several arguments that he did not present to the Arkansas courts.

Impressed by the fact that Roberts suffered a serious injury to his brain (with a resultant loss of cerebral tissue) when he was a child...

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