171218P.pdf   02/21/2018  Derrick Booth  v.  Wendy Kelley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1218
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Melloy, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. Counsel's failure to object to a fire 
   investigator's testimony that he had identified Booth as an arson suspect 
   in his investigation of a home fire was not ineffective assistance of 
   counsel as Arkansas's Rules of Evidence allow expert testimony on a fire's 
   origin and possible causes; the fire investigator did not testify that 
   defendant caused the fire, only that he developed Booth as a suspect based 
   on his investigation; such testimony was not unfounded speculation and did 
   not invade the province of the jury; as a result, counsel's failure to 
   challenge the testimony was not ineffective assistance; in any event, 
   Booth could not establish, in light of the evidence in the case, that he 
   was prejudiced by counsel's failure to object.