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091083P.pdf 11/10/2009 Cardrick Flowers v. Larry Norris
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-1083
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Melloy and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. District court did not err in finding state court
trial counsel's failure to move to sever felon-in-possession charge from
aggravated robbery and theft charges was not ineffective assistance of
counsel; defense counsel made a strategic decision not to move to sever
based on Flowers's general denial defense and not on a mistaken
understanding about the admissibility of Flowers's prior conviction.