Gulley v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of capital murder and attempted capital murder and sentenced to consecutive sentences of life in prison without parole, thirty years' imprisonment, and a fifteen-year enhancement for using a firearm during the commission of the attempted capital murder. Appellant appealed his convictions and sentences based on alleged error committed by the circuit court in admitting three of his text messages into evidence. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Appellant failed to preserve his Stores Communications Act argument and his illegal-search argument based on the Arkansas Constitution for the Court's review; and (2) because there was sufficient evidence to authenticate all three text messages at issue, the circuit court did not abuse its discretion in admitting any of the three text messages at trial.
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