Opinion

Flanagan v. State

  • 368 Ark. 143
  • 243 S.W.3d 866
  • 2006 Ark. LEXIS 618
Court
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Filed
Nov 30, 2006
Status
Published
Author
Imber
On the bench
Jim Hannah
Cited by
47 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.4%

stating that, pursuant to section 16-89-125(e), the circuit court did not err in making available to the jury during deliberations taped statements that had already been played for the jury during trial and admitted into evidence

How later courts described this case

  • stating that, pursuant to section 16-89-125(e), the circuit court did not err in making available to the jury during deliberations taped statements that had already been played for the jury during trial and admitted into evidence
  • holding that defendant was not in custody where she was asked, not ordered, to go to the police station; she was not handcuffed; and she was described as very cooperative
  • holding that defendant’s question “Do I need to call an attorney?” was not a clear invocation of the right to counsel
  • holding defendant not .in custody where she was asked, not ordered, to go to the police station; she was not handcuffed; and she. was described as very cooperative

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice, dissenting. Once again, the majority concludes, as it did in Anderson v. State, 367 Ark. 536 , 242 S.W.3d 229 (2006), that the circuit court did not err when it allowed the jury to take Flanagan’s recorded statements and a tape recorder or a TV/VCR into the jury room where the jury was deliberating. I must respectfully dissent in this case for the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in Anderson v. State, supra.

Corbin, J., joins this dissent.

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