SASSER v. HOBBS

Nos. 02-3103, 11-3346.

743 F.3d 1151 (2014)

Andrew SASSER, Petitioner-Appellant v. Ray HOBBS, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee. Andrew Sasser, Petitioner-Appellant v. Ray Hobbs, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: February 26, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Braden , Assistant, Deborah Anne Czuba , Federal Public Defender's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Andrew Sasser, Grady, AR, pro se.

Kelly Hook Fields , Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.


RILEY, Chief Judge.

The State of Arkansas's petition for panel rehearing is predicated on a misreading of our opinion and a mischaracterization of the record. It should be clear the district court, on remand, must consider whether "[Andrew] Sasser's state postconviction counsel fail[ed] to raise the[] four [potentially meritorious] ineffectiveness claims." Sasser v. Hobbs, 735 F.3d 833, 853 (8th Cir.2013). It should equally...

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