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Constitutional Law—Fourth Amendment Search And Seizure—We've Got Ourselves In A Pickle: The Supreme Court Of Arkansas's Recent Expansion Of Fourht Amendment Rights May Have Unintended Consequences. Pickle V. State, 2015 Ark. 286, 466 S.W. 3d 410, Ben Honaker
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Not Fit To Be Tried: Due Process And Mentally-Incompetent Criminal Defendants, J. Thomas Sullivan
Not Fit To Be Tried: Due Process And Mentally-Incompetent Criminal Defendants, J. Thomas Sullivan
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
A mentally-impaired accused who cannot comprehend the nature of the proceedings or assist his counsel in presenting his defense to the criminal charge cannot be tried as a matter of due process of law. In Jackson v. Indiana, 1 the United States Supreme Court held that due process concerns also bar the never-ending jeopardy resulting from an inability to restore an impaired accused to competence for purposes of proceeding to trial. When an Arkansas circuit court ordered the dismissal of pending criminal charges against an impaired accused who could not be restored to fitness for trial, the Arkansas Supreme Court, …
Criminal Law—When Apples Tatse Like Oranges, You Cannot Judge A Book By Its Cover: How To Fight Emerging Synthetic "Designer" Drugs Of Abuse, Andrew Payne Norwood
Criminal Law—When Apples Tatse Like Oranges, You Cannot Judge A Book By Its Cover: How To Fight Emerging Synthetic "Designer" Drugs Of Abuse, Andrew Payne Norwood
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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