Clements v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant Kenneth Ray Clements was convicted of shooting and killing Conway Police Officer Ray Noblitt. The jury convicted him of capital murder and sentenced him to death by lethal injection. On October 8, 1990, this court reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial because the prosecutor failed to timely provide him with the testimony of one of the state’s witnesses. See Clements v. State, 303 Ark. 319, 796 S.W.2d 839 (1990). The case was retried on February 11, 1992 and Clements was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison. As…