Robert Smith III v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Smith’s convictions for capital murder, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery, concluding that substantial evidence supported his accomplice liability and that the search of his residence was supported by probable cause. It also upheld the admission of the challenged text messages, prior-acts evidence, and sentencing-phase music video, while rejecting or finding unpreserved Smith’s remaining claims. The court remanded solely to correct the sentencing order to reflect that Smith’s life sentence permits parole eligibility after thirty years. Justice Womack, concurring, would have affirmed the sentence as modified rather than remanded for correction.