Charles Dee Prichard v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

A.L. Lockhart, the Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeals the magistrate judge’s 1 grant of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) habeas relief to Charles D. Prichard, an Arkansas prisoner convicted and sentenced for state drug offenses. The magistrate judge found that Prichard’s trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the sentencing court’s use of an out-of-state marijuana conviction to enhance Prichard’s sentence for possession of marijuana. We affirm.

Prichard was convicted by a jury of one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to…