Marlon Tucker v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Tucker’s convictions and consecutive sentences, rejecting his challenges to sentence-enhancement stacking, exclusion of hearsay, the sufficiency of the charging information, and refusal to give a reckless-manslaughter instruction. It held that the enhancement statutes required consecutive sentences, the hearsay ruling was preserved only in part and was not an abuse of discretion, the charging-information challenge was untimely, and the evidence provided no rational basis for the requested manslaughter instruction.