Legal Opinion
Rock v. Arkansas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1987No. 86-130PublishedCited by 2,053 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
The issue presented in this case is whether Arkansas’ evidentiary rule prohibiting the admission of hypnotically refreshed testimony violated petitioner’s constitutional right to testify on her own behalf as a defendant in a criminal case.
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Petitioner Vickie Lorene Rock was charged with manslaughter in the death of her husband, Frank Rock, on July 2, 1983. A dispute had been simmering about Frank’s wish to move from the couple’s small apartment adjacent to Vickie’s beauty parlor to a trailer she owned outside town. That night a fight erupted when Frank refused to let petitioner eat some pizza…
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