Supreme Court of Arkansas

James E. Smith v. State of Arkansas

October 1, 20202020 Ark. 296

Summary

The court denied Smith’s eighth petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court for coram nobis proceedings and his motion to subpoena medical records. It held that his claims based on PTSD-related amnesia, actual innocence, witness credibility, and evidentiary sufficiency were not cognizable in a coram nobis proceeding because he failed to identify a specific, record-extrinsic fundamental error within a recognized category of relief.