Supreme Court of Arkansas

Leonard Noble, Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

May 14, 20152015 Ark. LEXIS 335

Summary

The court denied Noble’s second petition to reinvest jurisdiction for a coram-nobis proceeding. His allegations of longstanding mental problems did not show incompetence at trial or establish previously unknown facts, and his complaints about trial errors and evidentiary sufficiency were outside coram-nobis review. The court also found no established disclosure violation because the challenged evidence was known or available at trial, while any ineffective-assistance claim had to be raised under the applicable postconviction rule.