Professor Sullivan’s Scholarship & Service

Sullivan, Tom. Psychiatric Issues and Expert Testimony in Arkansas Death Penalty Cases. Arkansas State Hospital, Little Rock, AR (April 21, 2021). The lecture was for the Forensic Didactics Fellowship sponsored by the UAMS Department of Psychiatry.

UA Little Rock annually celebrates the achievements of the top professors of the year who are making a difference in the community through their contributions in teaching, research and creative works, and public service. This is the highest honor UA Little Rock awards its faculty members. Created in 1989, the Faculty Excellence Awards have provided … Bowen honors faculty excellence recipients

Sullivan, Thomas, COVID-19’s Complications for Family Law Counsel: Domestic Violence and Threats to the Well-Being of Children, 10 Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service 1 (2020). The COVID-19 epidemic has created new problems for couples or families who have traditionally lived-in situations in which stress has either been minimal or controlled by the … Professor Sullivan publishes article on COVID-19, domestic violence, and family law practitioners

Sullivan, J. Thomas, Ethical and Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: the Decision to Petition for Certiorari in Criminal Cases, 51 St. Mary’s Law Journal 585 (2020). In this article Professor Sullivan addresses five situations in which counsel for the criminal defendant must petition the United States Supreme Court for writ of certiorari when the client’s prospects for … Distinguished Professor J. Thomas Sullivan published Ethical and Aggressive Appellate Advocacy: the Decision to Petition for Certiorari in Criminal Cases

Sullivan, J. Thomas, A Jurisdictional Skirmish in the Arkansas Appellate Courts and a New Direction for Rule 37.1 Appeals, 41 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 319 (2019).

Sullivan, J. Thomas. Psychiatric Issues in Arkansas Capital Sentencing Proceedings. UAMS Department of Psychiatry Forensic Didactics program, Little Rock, AR (Apr. 24, 2019).

Sullivan, J. Thomas.  The Arkansas Capital Sentencing Process: Mental State Issues and Psychiatric Evidence. Department of Psychiatry Forensic Didactics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR (Apr. 23, 2019).

Sullivan, Thomas. “Counsel’s Ethical Obligations in Representing the Mentally-Impaired Criminal Defendant.” Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service 7th Annual Symposium, UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, AR (April 6, 2019).

Tom Sullivan represented ADC inmate Vernell Conley before the Arkansas Supreme Court in Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, challenging the lawfulness of Conley’s 60-year sentence as a habitual offender for sale of $100 worth of crack cocaine to undercover officers in Conley v. Kelley, 2019 Ark. 23, 566 S.W.3d 113. The Arkansas … Professor Sullivan represents inmate before the Arkansas Supreme Court

Professor Sullivan testified as an expert witness called by the defense in Randy William Gay v. State of Arkansas on December 6-7th, 2018, in Garland County Circuit Court.  He testified concerning his findings and opinion that trial counsel’s performance in the sentencing of this capital defendant–who was sentenced to death–was ineffective.