Alford v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial in 1985, Petitioner was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1987, the Supreme Court denied Petitioner’s petition to proceed in the trial court with a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. Petitioner subsequently filed a second petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition under the version of Rule 37.1 in effect when he became eligible to file a petition. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition and declared moot the motion Petitioner filed in relation to the petition, holding that the petition did not establish any good cause to permit a second petition.
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