Danny Lee Hooper, Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

Summary

The court denied Hooper leave to proceed in the trial court with a second petition for a writ of error coram nobis. It held that his ineffective-assistance allegations were not cognizable in coram-nobis proceedings and that the newly obtained medical records did not establish either a prosecutorial disclosure violation or a fundamental error that probably would have changed the judgment. The court also concluded that the records did not demonstrate that Hooper was incompetent or that an insanity defense would have succeeded.