Legal Opinion
Pitts v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 20, 2016No. CR-80-40PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJosephine Linker Hart, Associate Justice
| tThis is a companion case to Strawhacker v. State, 2016 Ark. 348, 500 S.W.3d 716. As in Strawhacker, Eugene Issac Pitts’s petition for postconviction relief arises from repudiated trial testimony of FBI lab technician Michael Malone, a forensic hair analyst.
Pitts was convicted of capital felony murder for the slaying of Dr. Bernard Jones, committed in the course of a kidnapping. On June 29, 1981, Pitts’s conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Pitts v. State, 273 Ark. 220, 617 S.W.2d 849 (1981). Pitts now asks this court to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court so that it may consider…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Penn v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1984
- Pitts v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1999
- Eugene Issac Pitts v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Eugene Issac Pitts v. A.L. Lockhart, DirectorCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
- Strawhacker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Strawhacker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016
- Mosley v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2018
- Eugene Issac Pitts v. State of ArkansasSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2020
- Hill v. KelleySupreme Court of Arkansas · 2018
- Munnerlyn v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2018
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