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5-79-101. Criminal possession of body armor.
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5-79-101. Criminal possession of body armor.
(a) A person commits criminal possession of body armor if the person knowingly possesses body armor and he or she:
(1) Has been found guilty of or has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to any of the following offenses:
(A) Capital murder, § 5-10-101;
(B) Murder in the first degree, § 5-10-102;
(C) Murder in the second degree, § 5-10-103;
(D) Manslaughter, § 5-10-104;
(E) Aggravated robbery, § 5-12-103;
(F) Battery in the first degree, § 5-13-201;
(G) Aggravated assault, § 5-13-204;
(H) A felony violation of § 5-64-401 et seq.; or
(I) Aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or an employee of a correctional facility, § 5-13-211, if a Class Y felony; or
(2) Is committing or attempts to commit:
(A) A felony involving violence as defined in § 5-4-501(d)(2);
(B) Capital murder, § 5-10-101, manslaughter, § 5-10-104, or negligent homicide, § 5-10-105;
(C) False imprisonment in the first degree, § 5-11-103, false imprisonment in the second degree, § 5-11-104, vehicular piracy, § 5-11-105, or permanent detention or restraint, § 5-11-106;
(D) Robbery, § 5-12-102;
(E) Battery in the second degree, § 5-13-202; or
(F) Trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103.
(b) As used in this section, “body armor” means any material designed to be worn on the body and to provide bullet penetration resistance.
(c) Criminal possession of body armor is a Class D felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-79-101
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5-79-101. Criminal possession of body armor.
(a) A person commits criminal possession of body armor if the person knowingly possesses body armor and he or she:
(1) Has been found guilty of or has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to any of the following offenses:
(A) Capital murder, § 5-10-101;
(B) Murder in the first degree, § 5-10-102;
(C) Murder in the second degree, § 5-10-103;
(D) Manslaughter, § 5-10-104;
(E) Aggravated robbery, § 5-12-103;
(F) Battery in the first degree, § 5-13-201;
(G) Aggravated assault, § 5-13-204;
(H) A felony violation of § 5-64-401 et seq.; or
(I) Aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or an employee of a correctional facility, § 5-13-211, if a Class Y felony; or
(2) Is committing or attempts to commit:
(A) A felony involving violence as defined in § 5-4-501(d)(2);
(B) Capital murder, § 5-10-101, manslaughter, § 5-10-104, or negligent homicide, § 5-10-105;
(C) False imprisonment in the first degree, § 5-11-103, false imprisonment in the second degree, § 5-11-104, vehicular piracy, § 5-11-105, or permanent detention or restraint, § 5-11-106;
(D) Robbery, § 5-12-102;
(E) Battery in the second degree, § 5-13-202; or
(F) Trafficking of persons, § 5-18-103.
(b) As used in this section, “body armor” means any material designed to be worn on the body and to provide bullet penetration resistance.
(c) Criminal possession of body armor is a Class D felony.
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5-10-101. Capital murder.
(a) A person commits capital murder if:
(1) Acting alone or with one (1) or more other persons:
(A) The person commits or attempts to commit:
(i) Terrorism, as defined in § 5-54-205;
(ii) Rape, § 5-14-103;
(iii) Kidnapping, § 5-11-102;
(iv) Vehicular piracy, § 5-11-105;
(v) Robbery, § 5-12-102;
(vi) Aggravated robbery, § 5-12-103;
(vii) Residential burglary, § 5-39-201(a);
(viii) Commercial burglary, § 5-39-201(b);
(ix) Aggravated residential burglary, § 5-39-204;
(x) A felony violation of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, §§ 5-64-101 — 5-64-508, involving an actual delivery of a controlled substance; or
(xi) First degree escape, § 5-54-110; and
(B) In the course of and in furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight from the felony, the person or an accomplice causes the death of a person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life;
(2) Acting alone or with one (1) or more other persons:
(A) The person commits or attempts to commit arson, § 5-38-301; and
(B) In the course of and in furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight from the felony, the person or an accomplice causes the death of any person;
(3) With the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing the death of any law enforcement officer, jailer, prison official, firefighter, judge or other court official, probation officer, parole officer, any military personnel, or teacher or school employee, when such person is acting in the line of duty, the person causes the death of any person;
(4) With the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing the death of another person, the person causes the death of any person;
(5) With the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing the death of the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-10-101
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5-10-102. Murder in the first degree.
(a) A person commits murder in the first degree if:
(1) Acting alone or with one (1) or more other persons:
(A) The person commits or attempts to commit a felony; and
(B) In the course of and in the furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight from the felony, the person or an accomplice causes the death of any person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life;
(2) With a purpose of causing the death of another person, the person causes the death of another person; or
(3) The person knowingly causes the death of a person fourteen (14) years of age or younger at the time the murder was committed.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to any prosecution under subdivision (a)(1) of this section for an offense in which the defendant was not the only participant that the defendant:
(1) Did not commit the homicidal act or in any way solicit, command, induce, procure, counsel, or aid the homicidal act's commission;
(2) Was not armed with a deadly weapon;
(3) Reasonably believed that no other participant was armed with a deadly weapon; and
(4) Reasonably believed that no other participant intended to engage in conduct that could result in death or serious physical injury.
(c)(1) Murder in the first degree is a Class Y felony.
(2) Unless the application of § 16-93-621 results in a person's being eligible for parole at an earlier date, if a person was younger than eighteen (18) years of age at the time he or she committed murder in the first degree and is sentenced to life imprisonment, the person is eligible for parole after serving a minimum of twenty-five (25) years' imprisonment.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-10-102
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5-10-103. Murder in the second degree.
(a) A person commits murder in the second degree if:
(1) The person knowingly causes the death of another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or
(2) With the purpose of causing serious physical injury to another person, the person causes the death of any person.
(b) Murder in the second degree is a Class A felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-10-103
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5-10-104. Manslaughter.
(a) A person commits manslaughter if:
(1)(A) The person causes the death of another person under circumstances that would be murder, except that he or she causes the death under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there is reasonable excuse.
(B) The reasonableness of the excuse is determined from the viewpoint of a person in the actor's situation under the circumstances as the actor believed them to be;
(2) The person purposely causes or aids another person to commit suicide;
(3) The person recklessly causes the death of another person; or
(4) Acting alone or with one (1) or more persons:
(A) The person commits or attempts to commit a felony; and
(B) In the course of and in furtherance of the felony or in immediate flight from the felony:
(i) The person or an accomplice negligently causes the death of any person; or
(ii) Another person who is resisting the felony or flight causes the death of any person.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to any prosecution under subdivision (a)(4) of this section for an offense in which the defendant was not the only participant that the defendant:
(1) Did not commit the homicidal act or in any way solicit, command, induce, procure, counsel, or aid the homicidal act's commission;
(2) Was not armed with a deadly weapon;
(3) Reasonably believed that no other participant was armed with a deadly weapon; and
(4) Reasonably believed that no other participant intended to engage in conduct which could result in death or serious physical injury.
(c) Manslaughter is a Class C felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-10-104
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-10-104. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.