Supreme Court of Arkansas

Chad Lee White v. State of Arkansas

May 24, 20122012 Ark. LEXIS 253

Summary

The court held that the circuit court lacked authority to require sex-offender treatment as a condition of White's incarceration and remanded for that condition to be removed. It affirmed the sentencing-phase admission of testimony about prior alleged misconduct because White failed to object and none of the narrow preservation exceptions applied. Justice Robert L. Brown, concurring, would have reached the Confrontation Clause issue under a preservation exception but concluded any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.