Cigainero v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This is Mary Elizabeth Cigainero’s second appeal. See Cigainero v. State, 310 Ark. 504, 838 S.W.2d 361 (1992). In Cigainero I, Cigainero challenged her first-degree murder conviction in the shooting death of her husband, Christopher, claiming (1) there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction and (2) the trial court erred in failing to grant her a new trial based on juror bias. This court held the evidence at trial was more than substantial in showing Cigainero had planned and committed her husband’s murder. Concerning Cigainero’s second argument in Cigainero I,…