062823P.pdf   06/27/2007  Sedrice M. Simpson  v.  Larry Norris
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2823
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Riley and Bowman, Circuit
   Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. State courts' rulings that co-defendant's
   sentences were not a mitigating factor which had to be submitted to the
   jury in defendant's death penalty proceeding was not contrary to nor an
   unreasonable interpretation of clearly established federal law; claim of
   ineffective assistance of counsel in post-conviction proceedings rejected;
   district court erred in determining Simpson had defaulted on his eighth
   amendment claim under Atkins that his mental retardation made him
   ineligible for the death penalty; case remanded to the district court to
   permit Simpson to develop the factual basis for his claim and present it at
   an evidentiary hearing.