Edward Louis Walker v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Edward Louis Walker, an inmate at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, appeals from the district court’s denial of habeas relief. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We reverse.

On November 29, 1982, a jury convicted Walker of three counts of forgery in the second degree and of one count of theft of property in the Jefferson County, Arkansas, Circuit Court. The jury sentenced Walker as a habitual offender to sentences totaling sixty years. The trial court ordered that Walker serve the sentences consecutively, meaning that Walker would serve sixty years…