Denver Mitchell, Jr., Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

Summary

The court denied Mitchell's request to reinvest the trial court with jurisdiction to consider a writ of error coram nobis and therefore found his related motions moot. It held that ineffective-assistance claims, actual-innocence and sufficiency challenges, alleged trial errors, credibility attacks, and recantation claims were direct attacks on the judgment or otherwise outside coram nobis. Although a claim that police suppressed material exculpatory evidence could be cognizable, Mitchell failed to substantiate that the State concealed qualifying evidence, and he also failed to demonstrate due diligence after a delay of more than twenty-three years.