Kenneth Roshell Isom, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court denied Isom’s petition to recall the mandate from his postconviction appeal. It held that recalling a mandate is an extremely narrow remedy requiring an error or breakdown in the appellate process, and Isom’s allegations concerned the performance of postconviction or trial counsel rather than an appellate error. The court also declined to review Isom’s claim that a stroke made him ineligible for execution because no execution date had been set, rendering that claim unripe.