Leaks v. State

ANNABELLE Clinton Imber, JBruce Edward Leaks, was convicted

[1] The appellant, Bruce Edward Leaks, was convicted in a jury trial of first-degree murder and was sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, Mr. Leaks raised two assignments of error. First, he argued that the trial court abused its discretion in limiting his cross-examination of a State’s witness. Second, he argued that the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to argue to the jury that he could have been charged with capital murder. The court of appeals, by…