Keith Aaron Buchheit v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Keith Buchheit appeals the denial of his habeas corpus petition by the district court. 1 In his petition, he claimed that the Arkansas courts had denied him his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and due process. We affirm.

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Keith Buchheit was one of three men charged with beating another man to death. After one of his co-defendants was convicted and sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment, Mr. Buchheit agreed to plead guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for the prosecutor’s promise to ask for a sentence no greater than 32}é years. The state trial…