Ballard v. State

Summary

The court affirmed the denial or dismissal of Ballard’s post-conviction motions. It held that his petition for retroactive first-offender treatment was properly denied because he failed to show prosecutorial consent, that his extraordinary motion for new trial was impermissibly successive, and that his purported clerical-error motions were improper attempts to attack his conviction. The court also upheld denial of recusal and rejected the claim that a second hearing was required before the trial court reduced its oral rulings to writing.