Legal Opinion
Byrd v. Workman
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 27, 2011No. 09-5146PublishedCited by 246 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Kirk Douglas Byrd, an Oklahoma state prisoner currently serving a fifty-five-year sentence, appeals from the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. Mr. Byrd alleges that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel (1) failed to investigate whether his prior felony convictions would be admissible for purposes of enhancing his sentence under OMahoma’s repeat-offender statute, and (2) introduced all of his prior convictions to the jury when three of them were otherwise inadmissible. Exercising jurisdiction…
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