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043485P.pdf   08/22/2006  Frank Williams, Jr.  v.  Larry Norris
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-3485
   Eastern District of Arkansas   
   [PUBLISHED][Melloy, Author, with Chief Judge Loken, Circuit Judge]
   Habeas Case - death penalty. Motions for relief from judgment filed after
   habeas petition but before separate judgment were properly construed by
   the district court as successive habeas petitions. Ineffective assistance
   does not change what constitutes a second or successive habeas. An
   amendment to a petition is not successive if it occurs after the petition 
   is denied but before the denial is affirmed on appeal. A Rule 59(e) motion
   cannot be used to raise new claims.