Legal Opinion
Townsend v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided September 26, 2002No. CR 01-822PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Tom Glaze, Justice.
Laveris Townsend was convicted of aggravated robbery, rape, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was sentenced to a total of ninety-five years. We accept jurisdiction of this appeal because it involves significant issues needing clarification of the law.
Townsend was originally charged with two counts of aggravated robbery, multiple counts of rape, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and being a habitual offender. The charges stemmed from two robberies in Fayetteville: one at the Red Roof Inn on October 1, 2000, and the second at the Hampton Inn on October…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Holloway v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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- Thomas Winford Simmons v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
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