Jeffrey Scott Ratchford, Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

Summary

The court denied Ratchford's second petition to reinvest jurisdiction for a coram-nobis proceeding. It held that he failed to exercise due diligence because he knew or could have raised the medical-report claim years earlier and in his first petition, and that the report would not have established a material Brady violation because it would not have undermined confidence in the verdict. The opinion also applied the rule that a victim's testimony alone can support a rape conviction.