Legal Opinion
David Lee Starr v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1994No. 92-1466PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
David Lee Starr was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by the State of Arkansas. After exhausting his state remedies, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2554. The district court denied- Starr’s petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. We find that Starr was denied Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights at the sentencing phase of his trial. As a result, his death sentence is based on an aggravating factor which is im-permissibly vague under the Eighth Amendment. We also find that Starr was sentenced in violation of his…
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