Court Opinion

ID: 9677798
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:00:13.270876+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:01.955938
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Darrell Hickman, Justice, concurring. I would dismiss the petition for Rule 37 relief in this case and not entertain any further review of Collins’ conviction. We have examined this case twice, and we have already considered one petition for post-conviction relief. This petition was filed when the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided “. . . The Arkansas Supreme Court did not subject Collins’ sentence to comparative review.” That is an inaccurate statement. That was one of the issues under debate with this court as reported in the case of Collins v. State, 261 Ark. 195, 548 S.W.2d 106 (1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 878 (1977). The majority said it subjected Collins’ sentence to a comparative review. If the majority had not been satisfied in this respect it could not have approved Collins’ conviction. The Supreme Court of the United States was satisfied with this court’s treatment of that and other issues and denied certiorari.