Case ID: ark_278/html/0497-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Per Curiam. John I. Purtle, Justice, dissenting.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Terry KELLEY v. STATE of Arkansas
    CR 83-21
    646 S.W.2d 703
    Supreme Court of Arkansas
    Opinion delivered February 28, 1983
    Guy H. “Mutt” Jones, Phil Stratton and Casey Jones, by: Phil Stratton, for petitioner.
    
      Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Arnold M. Jochums, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
   Per Curiam.

Petition for Review is denied. Purtle, J., would grant.

John I. Purtle, Justice, dissenting.

I sincerely believe it is a denial of the rights granted to an accused by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and of Art. 2, Sec. 10 of the Constitution of Arkansas to limit defendant’s counsel to fifteen minutes to argue his case before a jury. The fact that the Arkansas Court of Appeals decided this case by a tie vote is evidence it should be reviewed by this court. Certainly the denial of a constitutional right, as I believe this to be, involves legal principles of major importance as envisioned by our Rule 29 (6) (b). I would grant the petition.