John Chad Griffin, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Griffin’s life sentence and concurrent ten-year enhancement after his guilty plea, holding that the admitted booking-video statements were spontaneous and not the product of custodial interrogation. It also held that Griffin failed to preserve his evidentiary challenge because he did not proffer the excluded testimony, and that the sentencing court considered but permissibly rejected intoxication as a mitigating circumstance.