State v. Robbins

RAY Thornton, Justice.

On June 17, 1998, Robert A. stice. to death for capital murder in Craighead County. On July 9, 1998, Robbins’s stand-by attorney filed a notice of appeal. Robbins waived his right to appeal and the trial court found that he had the capacity to knowingly and intelligently waive his right to appeal his death sentence. On review we determined that the trial court’s findings were not clearly erroneous and that because of Robbins’s waiver of appeal there was no merit in stand-by counsel’s request for reversal and a new sentencing phase of the trial.

On remand of the matter,…