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· 4/1/1996

Misskelley v. State

Citations

  • 915 S.W.2d 702
  • 323 Ark. 449
  • 1996 Ark. LEXIS 208

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that a defendant who was seventeen years old, possessed an IQ of 72, and read at the third-grade level voluntarily confessed
  • holding no error in rejecting the appellant’s proffered instruction, even though that statement was based on language from case law, when the AMCI instruction was a proper statement of the law
  • affirming the admission of a confession where the defendant was age seventeen, had an I.Q. of seventy-two, and was reading on a third-grade level
  • affirming the admission of a confession where the defendant was age seventeen, had an I.Q. of seventy-two, and was reading on a third-grade level
  • showing the accused gruesome photos of the victim and using a psychological diagram
  • showing the accused gruesome photos of the victim and using a psychological diagram

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Judges: Jesson

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