Tommy Ray Sullivan v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Tommy Ray Sullivan appeals the judgment of the district court 1 denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988). Sullivan was convicted of capital murder and burglary and sentenced to life without parole and thirty years on the two charges, respectively. On appeal, he argues that the district court should have afforded him an evidentiary hearing; that a 1976 conviction for escape was improperly admitted against him to establish habitual offender status; that the state withheld Brady 2 materials relating to a plea bargain with…