Supreme Court of Arkansas

Hall v. State

December 5, 20132013 Ark. 506

Summary

The court dismissed Hall’s appeal from the denial of his petition for DNA testing and declared his motion for an extension of time moot. It held that testing the cigarette butt could not produce new material evidence raising a reasonable probability that Hall did not commit the murder because no saliva was detected, the evidence indicated Hall did not smoke, and the cigarette’s age and origin were unknown.