Court Opinion

ID: 9683202
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:24:25.035139+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:46.212637
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P. A. Hollingsworth, Justice, dissenting. I agree with appellant’s argument that the trial court erred in denying his motion challenging the death qualification of prospective jurors. I disagree with the majority’s holding in Rector v. State, 280 Ark. 385, 659 S.W.2d 168 (1983). In my view the appellant had a right to prove that death-qualified jurors are more prone to conviction than jurors who are not so qualified, and to further prove that the jury in this case was so qualified. Grigsby v. Mabry, 569 F. Supp. 1273 (E.D. Ark. 1983).