Dodge v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial in 2012, Defendant was convicted of three counts of rape and one count of attempted rape of a minor. Defendant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The petition was denied. In 2015, Petitioner filed a petition seeking leave to proceed in the trial court with a petition for writ of error coram nobis, asserting (1) Arkansas’s postconviction remedy does not afford indigent defendants a meaningful review of ineffective assistance of counsel claims pertaining to appellate counsel, (2) he was denied effective assistance of counsel at trial, (3) his illegally obtained confession was utilized at his trial to gain the conviction against him, and (4) the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence in his case. The Supreme Court denied the writ, holding that Defendant’s claims were either outside the scope of a coram-nobis proceeding or were conclusory.
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