Legal Opinion
Barry Lee Fairchild v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Department of Correction, State of Arkansas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 25, 1990No. 89-1552PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Barry Lee Fairchild is under sentence of death for the 1983 murder of Marjorie Mason. His conviction was affirmed on direct and collateral review by the Arkansas Supreme Court. He then petitioned the federal courts for habeas corpus relief. His petition was denied, and we affirmed. Fairchild v. Lockhart, 857 F.2d 1204 (8th Cir.1988), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 109 S.Ct. 884, 102 L.Ed.2d 1007 (1989).
Fairchild has now filed a second petition. Originally, he offered two new grounds for relief. First, he claimed that his alleged mental retardation prevented an intelligent and…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Thomas Winford Simmons v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- Larry Branscomb v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Fairchild v. NorrisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1994
- Barry Lee Fairchild v. Larry Norris, Acting Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- Fairchild v. LockhartCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1992
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