Legal Opinion

McArthur v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided September 11, 2014No. CR-91-206PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Per curiam

|,In 1991, petitioner Steven Laron McArthur was found guilty by a jury of capital murder in the death of Rodney Spence in 1990. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. We affirmed. McArthur v. State, 309 Ark. 196, 830 S.W.2d 842 (1992).

Petitioner has now filed a pro se petition in this court requesting that jurisdiction be reinvested in the trial court so that he may proceed with a petition for writ of error coram nobis. A petition for leave to proceed in the trial court is necessary because the trial court can entertain a petition for writ of error coram nobis after a judgment…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Strickler v. GreeneSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  4. Roberts v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2013
  5. Penn v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1984

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Pinder v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2015
  2. Wallace v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016
  3. Evans v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016
  4. McArthur v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2017
  5. Rice v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016

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