Legal Opinion
Dung Thai Tran v. A.L. Lockhart, Director Arkansas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 26, 1988No. 87-1814EAPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSON, Senior District Judge.
Dung Thai Tran appeals the District Court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus. In the petition Tran asserts that a guilty plea he entered to a charge of capital felony murder should be set aside on the grounds that his unfamiliarity with the English language at the time of the plea, when combined with the actions of his court-appointed counsel, resulted in a violation of rights guaranteed to him by the United States Constitution. This Court, for the reasons discussed below, affirms the the order of the District Court.
Facts
Dung Thai Tran is a refuge from…
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