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073432P.pdf 11/13/2009 Albert Bell v. Larry Norris
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-3432
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. In reviewing the question of whether Bell, a
minor, made a knowing and intelligent waiver of his rights, the district
court did not err in finding the Arkansas Supreme Court correctly
identified the "totality-of-the-circumstances test" as the governing legal
standard and that it applied the standard in a reasonable manner; Bell's
request-for-counsel/voluntariness claim was procedurally barred.