2015 Ark. 331 Cheyenne Fink, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Fink's first-degree-murder conviction and life sentence, holding that substantial evidence supported the jury's finding that she purposely caused Cole's death and rejected her mental-disease-or-defect defense. The court also held that Fink's challenge to the prosecutor's closing argument was not preserved because she did not object and none of the narrow exceptions to the contemporaneous-objection rule applied.