Jackson v. Norris

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS PINE BLUFF DIVISION THIS IS A CAPITAL CASE ALVIN BERNAL JACKSON PETITIONER No. 5:03-CV-00405 SWW LARRY NORRIS, Director, RESPONDENT Arkansas Department of Correction, OPINION and ORDER Petitioner Alvin Bernal Jackson (“Jackson”), sentenced to death for capital murder and confined at the Varner Supermax Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction (“ADC”), seeks a writ of a habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Following discovery and an evidentiary…