Legal Opinion
Dawn Hall Baker v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 9, 2003No. 02-1499PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
In 1985, Dawn Hall Baker was convicted of three counts of felony capital murder for her participation in three 1984 robberies during the course of which her accomplice, Charles Franklin Stoner, took the lives of three people. Baker was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Her conviction was upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court and became final in 1986. Baker v. State, 289 Ark. 430, 711 S.W.2d 816 (1986). Baker did not pursue state post-conviction relief. In fact, she did not seek any further judicial review of her conviction until August 2001,…
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