Gregory Aaron Kinsey, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Kinsey’s convictions and consecutive sentences for first- and second-degree murder. It held that Kinsey failed to preserve his sufficiency challenge because his directed-verdict motions did not identify the specific deficiency in the State’s proof of justification, that the model self-defense instruction correctly stated the law, and that Kinsey opened the door to evidence of prior aggressive conduct during sentencing. Justice Danielson, dissenting, would have reversed and remanded because the instruction did not tell the jury that the State bore the burden of disproving justification beyond a reasonable doubt.