Kemp v. State

W.H. “Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

In October of 1993, police found the bodies of David Wayne Helton, Robert “Sonny” Phegley, Cheryl Phegley, and Richard “Bubba” Falls in a trailer in Jacksonville, Arkansas. All four victims had been shot, and all but Falls had been shot more than once. Another victim, Becky Mahoney, was also shot but hid in a bedroom closet during the shootings and survived. Mahoney later identified her boyfriend, Timothy Wayne Kemp, as the perpetrator. In November of 1994, Kemp was convicted of four counts of capital murder and sentenced to death on each count. On appeal,…