Legal Opinion

Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided May 15, 1995No. CR 95-25PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Alge Ray Williams contests his 75-year sentence for selling one rock of crack cocaine on grounds of excessiveness. His appeal is without merit, and we affirm.

On December 14, 1993, informant Teresa Lavette Mitchell, accompanied by informant Deborah Box and undercover police officer Maria Bell, drove in one car to the parking lot across the street from the Chat-N-Chew eating establishment in Camden. They all wore body microphones. In the parking lot, Mitchell bought one rock of crack cocaine from Williams for $20. Williams carried the crack cocaine in a…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Collins v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
  2. Osborne v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1963
  3. Nichols v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1991
  4. Henry v. EberhardSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1992
  5. Stout v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Bunch v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2001
  2. Henderson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
  3. Lockhart v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2017
  4. Brandon Michael Clark v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2019
  5. Gonder v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2011

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