Legal Opinion
Hill v. Lockhart
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 18, 1985No. 84-1103PublishedCited by 9,129 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Petitioner William Lloyd Hill pleaded guilty in the Arkansas trial court to charges of first-degree murder and theft of property. More than two years later he sought federal ha-beas relief on the ground that his court-appointed attorney had failed to advise him that, as a second offender, he was required to serve one-half of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied relief without a hearing, and the en banc Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed by an equally divided court. We granted certiorari…
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