Legal Opinion
Burt Beavers v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 25, 1985No. 84-1044PublishedCited by 360 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Burt Beavers appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He asserts that the Arkansas Habitual Offenders Act, Ark. Stat.Ann. §§ 41-1001 to -1005 (1977) (the “Act”), 1 is unconstitutional and that the district court erred in dismissing his petition without holding an evidentiary hearing on his allegations that the Act was diserim-inatorily applied against him and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. We vacate the judgment and remand the case to the district court to. hold an eviden-tiary hearing to…
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