Avery Scott v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Scott's postconviction petition. It held that his jurisdictional and prosecutorial-bad-faith arguments were impermissible attacks on the sufficiency of the evidence or prosecutorial conduct and therefore could not be raised in a Rule 37.1 proceeding. The court also held that Scott failed to establish ineffective assistance because he did not show that counsel's alleged errors caused him to reject a trial and plead guilty, and his allegations were conclusory and contradicted by the circuit court's credibility findings.