Opinion
4:23-cv-1111-DPM
02-26-2024
DERIC C. SMITH, SR. ADC #179678 PETITIONER v. DEXTER PAYNE, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections RESPONDENT
ORDER
D.P. Marshall Jr. United States District Judge
Motion, Doc. 6, denied. This Court dismissed Smith's habeas petition without prejudice because he had not yet exhausted his state remedies. He now asks this Court to appoint him a lawyer to help in his direct appeal of his criminal conviction because his retained lawyer has been suspended from practice for a year. At this point, however, this federal court cannot appoint Smith a lawyer to handle his ongoing state case.
So Ordered.