Roy Lee Russell v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court denied Russell's petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider coram nobis relief based on alleged Brady violations involving the criminal histories of two witnesses. It held that the evidence concerning one witness was publicly available and not shown to have been suppressed, while Russell provided no evidence of the other witness's alleged juvenile adjudication or the prosecution's access to it. The court also held that, in light of the corroborating evidence at trial, Russell failed to establish prejudice.