Legal Opinion
James D. Vancleave v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 29, 1998No. 97-1586PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
James D. Vancleave was convicted of capital murder in 1978 and is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. After exhausting state court remedies, Vancleave filed a pro se federal habeas petition in 1984, which the district court dismissed in January' 1987. In June 1996, after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub.L. 104132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996), Vancleave filed this habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court 1 dismissed the petition, concluding it is successive for purposes of § 106(b)…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Ford v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Felker v. TurpinSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
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3Cited by43 opinions
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- United States v. BarrettCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
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- Earnest L. White, Applicant v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
- In Re Thomas F. Page, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
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