Walker v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1981
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sanders v. United States · United States ex rel. McCann v. Thompson · Emmet P. Burke v. Everett T. Carpenter, Etc. · United States v. Brown · Sinclair v. Blackburn
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“a. That the presiding trial judge at his murder conviction, Judge William Kirby, was biased against the plaintiff. b. That there was official misconduct in the plaintiffs trials in state court in that the North Little Rock Police Department allegedly withheld exculpatory evidence and witnesses from the plaintiff. c. That prejudicial pre-trial publicity made it impossible for the plaintiff to receive a fair trial before a fair and impartial jury. d. That the plaintiffs principal attorney was intimidated, threatened and consistently interfered with by the trial court, police officers and other officials in a manner that prevented him from adequately defending the plaintiff. e. That there is newly discovered evidence that exonerates the plaintiff. f. That the sum total of the various alleged defects in the plaintiffs state trial were so serious as to shock the conscience of the court into violating his constitutional rights to a fair trial. g. That in the prosecution of his prior habeas corpus petition, his rights to due process were abridged when representatives of then Governor Winthrop Rockefeller allegedly induced him not to apply for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court subsequent to the ruling of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denying him habeas relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve the ends of justice by reconsidering the merits of the plaintiff's subsequent habeas application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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