Legal Opinion
Robert Earl McCoy v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 10, 1992No. 91-2856PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeals from the judgment of the District Court 1 granting Robert Earl McCoy’s petition for habe-as corpus relief. We remand the case to the District Court.
McCoy was convicted of rape in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas on November 24, 1986. The court, in a bench trial, credited the victim’s testimony that McCoy had somehow entered her apartment and raped her. The court disbelieved McCoy’s testimony that the victim had allowed McCoy into her apartment and had consented to have sex with him.…
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- Sawyer v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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