Smith v. State (Majority)
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The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's seventh pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that Petitioner failed to raise claims that were cognizable in coram nobis proceedings.
Petitioner was convicted of two counts of rape. In his coram nobis petition at issue in this case Petitioner raised new claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and reasserted a conflict of interest claim, both of which were either raised and rejected or should have been raised in a previous Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1 proceeding. The Supreme Court denied the petition, which rendered moot Petitioner's motion to rebut the State's response to his petition, holding that, as with his first six petitions, Petitioner asserted claims that were not cognizable in a petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for a writ of error coram nobis.
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