Legal Opinion
Kirt Morris v. Larry Norris, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1996No. 95-2590PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Arkansas inmate Kirt Morris was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on the night of January 25-26, 1992. The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed his conviction. Cloird v. State, 314 Ark. 296, 862 S.W.2d 211 (1993). Without filing a petition for state post-conviction relief, Morris petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, raising four claims which the. court 1 denied as proeedurally barred. Morris appeals, arguing that one claim was fairly presented to the state courts, and that his procedural defaults should be excused. We…
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