Thornton v. State (Majority)
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The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's motion to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that Petitioner did not timely file his petition and otherwise failed to state sufficient facts establishing his entitlement to the writ.
Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery. In his coram nobis petition, Petitioner alleged that a third party confessed to the crime during the time between conviction and appeal. Petitioner subsequently filed a motion for leave to file a reply to the State's response to his petition. The Supreme Court denied both the petition and the motion, holding that the petition was untimely, and the rules do not permit a reply to a response to a coram nobis petition.
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