Legal Opinion
Prince v. Lockhart
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 24, 1992No. Nos. 92-1203, 92-1287PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988), to Carl Dwayne Prince. Prince was convicted in state court of burglary of a pharmacy, Ark.Code Ann. § 5-39-201 (1987), and the underlying felony of theft of property. Ark.Code Ann. § 5-36-103 (1987). The district court granted the writ, finding that the trial court’s refusal to allow Prince to introduce evidence of a previous acquittal rendered the trial fundamentally unfair in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Prince, on…
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