Lonnie Dolphus Strawhacker v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of coram nobis relief and dismissed as moot the request to expand the writ to encompass repudiated governmental scientific testimony because that expansion already exists under Arkansas precedent. Applying the rule of reason, the court held that the circuit court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the repudiated hair-analysis testimony was not material because the remaining evidence did not create a reasonable probability of acquittal.