Burt Beavers v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a district court does not err when it dismisses a claim based on vague allegations or unsupported generalizations
• exercising discretion to consider habe-as petitioner’s claim of ineffective assistance not raised in district court
• “The general rule, of course, is that federal appellate courts will not consider issues not raised in the district court.” (citing Hormel v. Helvering, 312 U.S. 552, 556 (1941))
• burden on habeas corpus petitioner to establish that he is entitled to relief
• where the habeas claim that a state criminal law was unconstitutionally applied based on race was supported only by the assertion that “ ‘the petitioner is black in a white society where justice is a false hope.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).