Buckley v. State

|r,I concur in the decision to reverse in part because some of our supreme court’s statements in Byrd v. State strongly counsel, if not require, this court to reverse Buckley’s conviction for failing to appear at the 19 September 2012 hearing. I write separately to point out that our supreme court should consider whether to recognize a “conduit” exception to Arkansas Rule of Evidence 502 that operates, for example, when a lawyer acts to communicate third-party information to a client. See generally Byrd v. State, 326 Ark. 10, 15-17, 929 S.W.2d 151, 154-55 (Corbin & Glaze, JJ., dissenting).

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