Jeffrey Golden v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Golden’s postconviction petition, holding that he failed to establish a reasonable probability that authenticating the movie-theater receipt and related bank records would have changed the verdict. The court emphasized the multiple eyewitness identifications and the uncertainty whether Golden himself used the debit card, concluding that the circuit court’s no-prejudice finding was not clearly erroneous. Justice Cliff Hoofman, dissenting, would have found a reasonable probability of a different result because the records independently corroborated Golden’s alibi and the State’s case depended on eyewitness identification evidence.