Ball v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of two counts of rape for the sexual assault of his stepdaughter. The court of appeals affirmed. Thereafter, Defendant filed an untimely petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The petition was denied. Defendant later filed this pro se petition and supplemental petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, alleging that the State withheld evidence from the defense at trial, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at trial, and that the state postconviction remedy is inadequate to allow a meaningful review of ineffective assistance of counsel claims. The Supreme Court denied the petition and supplemental petition, holding that Defendant’s claims were either not cognizable in error-coram-nobis proceedings or were unsupported by the facts or by convincing legal authority.
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