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Allen v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided September 14, 1992No. CR 92-94PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

James Lee Allen, appellant, was charged with capital murder. Under the capital murder statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 5-10-101 (Supp. 1991), there are two types of capital murder. One is the premeditated and deliberate killing of a person, and the other is the killing of a person in the course of one of several enumerated felonies. Appellant was charged only with premeditated and deliberate capital murder. This kind of premeditated capital murder charge includes the lesser charge of purposeful first degree murder. Appellant was not charged with the other kind of capital…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Penson v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  3. Rose v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  4. Speiser v. RandallSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  5. Vasquez v. HillerySupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Grillot v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2003
  2. Misskelley v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1996
  3. Kemp v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1996
  4. Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1999
  5. Eugene Issac Pitts v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996

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