111049P.pdf   11/06/2012  Ralph Armstrong  v.  Ray Hobbs
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1049
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Arkansas criminal rule which excludes
   evidence tending to show that someone other than the defendant
   committed the crime charged unless that evidence points directly to the
   guilt of the third party is constitutionally permissible under Holmes v.
   South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006) as the evidence is excluded based
   on the strength of the link between the evidence and the crime; other
   issues were outside the scope of he certificate of appealability issued in
   the case.
  
111049P.pdf   12/13/2011  Ralph Armstrong  v.  Ray Hobbs
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1049
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - habeas. Trial court's decision, under Arkansas law, to
   reject Armstrong's proposed evidence that two other people may have
   been responsible for a murder was not contrary to, nor an unreasonable
   application of, clearly established federal law; arguments not within scope
   of the Certificate of Appealability would not be considered.