Legal Opinion
Pickens v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided June 1, 1987No. CR 86-42PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Tom Glaze, Justice.
On October 20, 1975, several people were shot in a robbery of a grocery store in Arkansas County. Three people were charged in the case, one being appellant. Venue for appellant was changed to Prairie County, where appellant subsequently was convicted of the capital felony murder of Wesley Noble, one of the customers in the store. Appellant was sentenced to death. The conviction and sentence were upheld in Pickens v. State, 261 Ark. 756, 551 S.W.2d 212 (1977). In Pickens v. Lockhart, 714 F.2d 1455 (8th Cir. 1983), appellant’s death sentence was vacated because of…
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2Cases cited21 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Lockhart v. McCreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Skipper v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by47 opinions
- Morgan v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Gardner v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1988
- Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
- Hill v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1994
- Kemp v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1996
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