United States Eighth Circuit

Order granting habeas relief is reversed. Claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, based on attorney's failure to object to statements by the prosecution that were allegedly false and outside the record, was based entirely on Arkansas law of trial procedure, and the claim is governed by state law, not federal law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/14/2004
• Published 04/14/2004

Judges

• MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge., Before WOLLMAN, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Teena L. Watkins, argued, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James L. Holmes, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.