Legal Opinion
Lewis v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided April 20, 2017No. CR-16-961PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
hln 2013, appellant Don Earl Lewis entered a plea of nolo contendere to second-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment. On August 2, 2016, Lewis filed in the trial court a pro se petition for scientific testing of evidence under Act 1780 of 2001 Acts of Arkansas, as amended by Act 2250 of 2005 and codified as Arkansas Code Annotated sections 16-112-201 to -208 (Repl. 2006). The trial court denied the petition, and Lewis brings this appeal.
Act 1780 provides that a writ of habeas corpus may be issued based on new scientific evidence proving a person actually innocent…
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