State v. Rainer

COURTNEY HUDSON GOODSON, Justice.

|TThe State appeals a Mississippi County Circuit Court decision granting Shawn Trevell Rainer’s petition for a new trial based on Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37. The circuit court granted a new trial based on its belief that, at trial, it had incorrectly excluded evidence pertinent to Rainer’s defense of accident. For reversal, the State contends that the circuit court clearly erred in finding that Rainer’s trial counsel was ineffective for failing to renew a challenge to the circuit court’s decision granting the State’s pretrial motion in limine…