Legal Opinion
Mikel W. Houston v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 8, 1993No. 90-2592PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge, with whom RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, FAGG, WOLLMAN, BEAM, HANSEN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, join.
Arkansas inmate Mikel W. Houston appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing. Houston claims that, because of the ineffective assistance of his trial counsel, favorable polygraph test re-*1248suits were not admitted into evidence in the jury trial that led to his conviction for rape of his twelve-year-old daughter. On the unique facts of this case, we conclude that Houston is…
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