Legal Opinion
Bramlett v. Hobbs
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided April 9, 2015No. CV-12-330PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaren R. Baker, Associate Justice
| ,On October 30, 1979, Appellant, Steven Wayne Bramlett, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to attempted capital murder and was sentenced to life in the Arkansas Department of Correction. The record demonstrates that Bramlett was seventeen years old when he committed this offense.
On October 26, 2011, pursuant to Ark.Code Ann. § 16-111-101 (Repl.2010), Bramlett filed a pro se complaint for declaratory relief alleging that the parole-eligibility statute, codified at the time of the offense at Ark. Stat. Ann. § 43-2829 1 was unconstitutional 12as applied to Bram-lett. Relying on Graham v.…
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