Supreme Court of Arkansas

Howard Lee Leach v. State of Arkansas

September 12, 20192019 Ark. 238

Summary

The court dismissed Leach’s appeal and deemed his pending motions moot because his request for scientific testing could not succeed. It held that a guilty plea meant identity was not at issue and that Leach failed to show that testable evidence was in the State’s possession, while his additional claims had already been rejected and were outside the scope of the scientific-testing statute.