Legal Opinion
Marion Albert Pruett v. Larry Norris, Marion Albert Pruett v. Larry Norris
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 7, 1998No. 97-2004, 97-2236PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Larry Norris, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (the State), appeals from the district court’s judgment granting Marion Albert Pruett’s petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We reverse.
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In 1979, Pruett was released from a 23-year federal penitentiary sentence for bank robbery, apparently in exchange for his testimony against an underworld figure with whom he was serving time. Pruett was placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program in New Mexico, where he lived under an assumed identity with his wife, Pamela Sue…
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