Rodney E. Barnett v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court dismissed Barnett’s third petition to reinvest jurisdiction for coram nobis relief as an abuse of the writ because his allegations concerning the jailhouse witness, the alleged false testimony, and the purportedly withheld evidence had been raised in earlier petitions and were not materially distinguished. The court also found his motions for appointment of counsel and oral argument moot. The court did not reach the merits of the alleged prosecutorial misconduct or Brady violation.