Edmond McClinton, Jr., Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court held that the appellant's postconviction petition should be treated as filed before the applicable deadline despite his failure to satisfy the prison-mailbox rule, based on the unusual and unexplained delay in the clerk's receipt and filing of the petition. It remanded for the circuit clerk to file-mark the petition as of September 21, 2015, after which the trial court was to determine its jurisdiction and rule on the petition. The court affirmed dismissal of the coram-nobis petition because the trial court lacked jurisdiction absent prior authorization from the appellate court.