Nunn v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 480 months’ imprisonment. The court of appeals affirmed. Thereafter, Appellant filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1, arguing that his trial counsel was ineffective for several reasons. The circuit court denied the petition without holding an evidentiary hearing. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant failed to meet his burden of overcoming the presumption that counsel was not ineffective by identifying specific acts or omissions of trial counsel, which, when viewed from counsel’s perspective at the time of the trial, could have been the result of reasonable professional judgment.
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