Legal Opinion

Thomas v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 20, 2014No. CR-10-545PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KAREN R. BAKER, Justice.

|TOn September 28, 2005, a Pike County jury convicted appellant, Mickey David Thomas, of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death. We affirmed his conviction and sentence in Thomas v. State, 370 Ark. 70, 257 S.W.3d 92 (2007).

On April 16, 2009, Thomas filed his initial, unverified Rule 87.5 petition in the Sevier County Circuit Court and a motion to amend his petition. On November 6, 2009, Thomas filed an amended Rule 37.5 petition, and on that same day the circuit court conducted a hearing on Thomas’s petition. On February 1, 2010, the circuit court…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Abernathy v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2012
  3. Noel v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2000
  4. Neff v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1985
  5. Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2007

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Stalnaker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2015
  2. Savage v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2015
  3. Minor Children v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and Jacklyn GabbardSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2019
  4. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2015
  5. Mickey Thomas v. Dexter PayneCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2020

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