Heath Carlton Stocks v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Stocks’s petition for writ of error coram nobis and audita querela. It held that his allegations concerning judicial bias, withheld evidence, mental incompetence, ineffective assistance, prosecutorial misconduct, and coercion either involved matters within the trial record, were unsupported, were not cognizable in coram nobis proceedings, or failed to establish a fundamental extrinsic factual error. The court also noted that audita querela has been abolished and treated the request as one for coram nobis relief.