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Weaver v. State

Citations

  • 3 S.W.3d 323
  • 339 Ark. 97
  • 1999 Ark. LEXIS 562

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying an effort to amend on the day of the Rule 37 hearing in order to add a new claim
  • discussing “outrageous governmental conduct” sufficient to violate the constitution and to bar prosecution versus the defense of entrapment
  • holding the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant a last-minute effort to insert a due-process claim into his post-conviction petition during his Rule 37 hearing because the State was unprepared and unable to respond to the new theory without obtaining a continuance
  • “[a]n attorney is not ineffective for failing to raise every novel issue which might conceivably be raised”
  • “An attorney is not ineffective for failing to raise every novel issue which might conceivably be raised.”

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Judges: Glaze

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