United States Eighth Circuit

Petitioner's challenge to the execution of a sentence is not a successive petition under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 where the first petition challenged the constitutionality of the conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/17/2001
• Published 05/17/2001

Judges

• HEANEY, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, HEANEY, and BYE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James J. Lessmeister, Little Rock, AR, argued, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• O. Milton Fine, II, Assistant Attorney General, Little Rock, AR, argued (Mark Pryor, Attorney General of Arkansas, on the brief), for appellee.