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PICKENS v. STATE

No. CR 89-94.

783 S.W.2d 341 (1990)

301 Ark. 244

Edward Charles PICKENS, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Rosenzweig, John Wesley Hall, Jr., amici curiae brief, Nat. Assoc. of Crim. Defense Lawyers, Ark. Assoc. of Crim. Defense Lawyers, Ralph G. Brodie, amicus curiae brief, Ark. Bar Ass'n, Little Rock, for appellant.

Clint Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

HICKMAN, Justice.

For the third time, a jury has sentenced Edward Charles Pickens to die for a murder committed in 1975, and for the third time we are hearing his appeal. We affirmed his original conviction and sentence in Pickens v. State, 261 Ark. 756, 551 S.W.2d 212 (1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 1459, 55 L.Ed.2d 500 (1978). In 1983, the Eighth Circuit vacated the death sentence due to ineffective...

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