Hardman v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Brandon Hardman appeals the capital murder conviction and life sentence he received for killing Antwan Jones. Hardman does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, so we recite the facts only briefly; Police officers responded to a call-at 28th and Battery Streets in Little Rock on March 20, 2000. Upon arriving at the scene, they found a young man, Jones, lying on the ground with a bullet wound to the back of his neck. The area in which the shooting occurred was part of the “Vice Lords” gang territory. Hardman was a member of the “Folk” or “Gangster Disciple” gang.…