Arlester E. Scott v. Jim Jones and William L. Webster

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Arlester Scott sought habeas relief by petition filed in March 1988 for redress of alleged errors in two successive trials for the same first degree robbery charge, each resulting in a 25-year sentence. The district court 1 granted his petition on its first of seven points, double jeopardy. Scott v. Jones, 688 F.Supp. 510 (W.D.Mo.1988). A panel of this court reversed that order. Scott v. Jones, 862 F.2d 1311 (1988), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 109 S.Ct. 3169, 104 L.Ed.2d 1031 (1989). Thereafter, the district court denied relief on Scott’s remaining six points…