Gary Crawford v. State of Arkansas
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ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT
No. CR 071051
Opinion Delivered
GARY CRAWFORD
Appellant
v.
STATE OF ARKANSAS
Appellee
February 21, 2008
PRO SE MOTIONS FOR EXTENSION
OF TIME TO FILE BRIEF AND TO
DUPLICATE BRIEF AT PUBLIC
EXPENSE [CIRCUIT COURT OF
JACKSON COUNTY, CR 200391,
HON. HAROLD ERWIN, JUDGE]
MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME
GRANTED; MOTION TO DUPLICATE
BRIEF AT PUBLIC EXPENSE DENIED.
PER CURIAM
In 2004, appellant Gary Crawford was found guilty by a jury of rape and kidnapping and
received an aggregate sentence of 336 months’ imprisonment. The Arkansas Court of Appeals
affirmed. Crawford v. State, CACR 041397 (Ark. App. Sept. 21, 2005). Subsequently, appellant
filed in the trial court a verified pro se petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P.
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37.1. The trial court denied the petition without a hearing and appellant has lodged an appeal here
from the order.
Appellant now seeks an extension of time to file his brief. As this is his first request for an
extension of time, the motion is granted and the time to file the appellant’s brief is extended to thirty
days from the date of this opinion.
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The trial court initially denied the petition as being untimely filed. We reversed the trial court’s
order and remanded the matter for consideration of the merits of the petition. Crawford v. State, CR 06
692 (Ark. Jan. 25, 2007) (per curiam).
Appellant additionally seeks duplication of his brief at public expense. There is no right under
our rules or any constitutional provision to have a brief or a portion of a brief in a civil case
duplicated at public expense. See Maxie v. Gaines, 317 Ark. 229, 876 S.W.2d 572 (1994) (per
curiam). Nevertheless, in those cases where the indigent appellant makes a substantial showing in
a motion that the appeal has merit and that he or she cannot provide the court with a sufficient
number of copies of the brief, we will request that the Attorney General duplicate the brief. In his
motion, appellant has failed to show substantial merit to the appeal, and thus has not stated any basis
for the brief to be duplicated at public expense. Appellant may file the brief in the court on or before
the due date provided that he files the proper number of copies.
Motion for extension of time granted; motion to duplicate brief at public expense denied.
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