Supreme Court of Arkansas

Brian Keith Biggs, Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

March 17, 20162016 Ark. LEXIS 93

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Biggs's petition for a writ of error coram nobis. It held that his claim was actually an ineffective-assistance claim, which is not cognizable in coram-nobis proceedings, and that he had not preserved the coerced-plea theory raised on appeal. The court further concluded that alleged misinformation about serving more than seventy percent of the sentence involved public statutory information, not an extrinsic fact supporting coram-nobis relief.