HOLMES v. NORRIS

No. PB-C-84-301.

860 F.Supp. 637 (1994)

James William HOLMES, Petitioner, v. Larry NORRIS, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Respondent.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

August 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall N. Carlisle, Murphy & Carlisle, Fayetteville, AR, Deborah Ruth Sallings, E. Alvin Schay, Arkansas Death Penalty Resource Center, Inc., Little Rock, AR, Steven W. Hawkins, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., New York City, for petitioner.

Olan W. Reeves, Atty. General's Office, Little Rock, AR, Jack Ward Gillean, Office of the Governor, State of Ark., Little Rock, AR, for respondent.


ORDER

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

Petitioner, James William Holmes, has been represented by Marshall Carlisle of Fayetteville, a member of the Arkansas Bar, from the time he was charged until yesterday, one day before his scheduled execution. The other three defendants have, for some time, been represented by other counsel rather than their trial attorneys. Until yesterday, August 2, 1994, this Court had no official notification that Holmes had discharged...

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