Supreme Court of Arkansas

Jimmy Don Wooten v. State of Arkansas

October 8, 2020608 S.W.3d 565

Summary

The court denied Wooten’s second petition seeking permission to pursue coram nobis relief. It held that his claim based on the appointment of only one attorney did not assert a cognizable coram nobis error, relied on a statute that was not in effect at the relevant time, and did not establish a fundamental constitutional violation. The court further held that his mental-disability and ineffective-assistance allegations repeated claims previously rejected and that he failed to establish a valid excuse for delay.