Legal Opinion
Greene v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided February 12, 2004No. CR 02-736PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Betty C. Dickey, Chief Justice.
Appellant Jack Gordon Greene was convicted in Johnson County Circuit Court of the capital murder of Sidney Jethro Burnett and was sentenced to death in 1992. This court affirmed the conviction for capital murder but reversed and remanded for resentencing because the North Carolina Supreme Court had reversed a previous murder conviction, which the Arkansas trial jury had considered as an aggravating circumstance. Greene v. State, 317 Ark. 350, 878 S.W.2d 384 (1994) (Greene I). In 1996, Greene was again sentenced to death and this court again reversed and remanded…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Caldwell v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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- Wisconsin v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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3Cited by56 opinions
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