Legal Opinion
Robert Ross White v. A.L. Lockhart, Director Arkansas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 27, 1988No. 87-2048PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Robert Ross White, an Arkansas state prisoner, appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because we are convinced that the only issue before us, the failure to grant a continuance, is not constitutional error, we affirm.
While on parole in 1984, White was charged as a repeat offender with second-degree forgery by writing to himself a cheek for $215.01 on the account of “Happy House Shoes.” During in-chamber proceedings just before his bifurcated trial commenced, White indicated that he had not…
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