Hooper v. State

Summary

The court denied Hooper’s request to reinvest jurisdiction in the circuit court to pursue coram-nobis relief and held that his claims did not fit within that extraordinary remedy. His incompetency and insanity-defense allegations were unsupported, ineffective-assistance claims were outside coram-nobis proceedings, and the DNA and multiple-offense claims were trial errors or record-based issues that could have been raised earlier. The related motions for counsel and a psychiatrist were therefore moot.