Supreme Court of Arkansas

Pitts v. State

June 25, 20152015 Ark. 292

Summary

The court granted Pitts’s request for appointed counsel in connection with his second petition to reinvest the trial court with jurisdiction to consider coram-nobis relief. Because the petition raised potentially substantial claims concerning an examiner’s failure to meet professional standards and involved complex issues, the court concluded that Pitts could not proceed effectively without counsel and appointed John Wesley Hall.