Supreme Court of Arkansas

Williams v. State

October 3, 20132013 Ark. 375

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Williams’s Rule 37.1 petition. It held that his ineffective-assistance claim concerning the chain of custody of vaginal swabs could not be considered because he had not raised it in his petition, and it further held that Rule 37.1 does not permit a challenge to the sufficiency or weight of the trial evidence. The court reviewed the postconviction ruling for clear error.