Any person who is found guilty of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to a second or subsequent felony involving the use of a firearm shall be sentenced to a minimum term of imprisonment of ten (10) years in the Division of Correction without eligibility of parole or community correction transfer but subject to reduction by meritorious good-time credit.
Ark. Code Ann. § 16-90-121
Second or subsequent felony with firearm
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Hagar v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Polivka v. State (April 2010)
Acts 1981, No. 583, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-2336.1; Acts 2001, No. 1783, § 1; 2019, No. 910, § 862.
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