Lee v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Ledell Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1993 capital murder of Jacksonville resident Debra Reese; that conviction was affirmed by this court in Lee v. State, 327 Ark. 692, 942 S.W.2d 231 (1997). Lee subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37, alleging that his trial attorneys, Bill Simpson, Bret Qualls, and Dale Adams, had rendered ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court denied the petition, and on appeal, Lee raises sixteen points for reversal.

The general standard of review for reviewing claims of…