Gonder v. State

Lin 2010, appellant Duane Jefferson Gonder entered a plea of guilty to first-degree murder, aggravated assault, and furnishing prohibited articles. He was sentenced to an aggregate term of 562 months’ imprisonment.

In 2014, Peggy Gonder, who identified herself-as Duane Jefferson Gonder’s mother, filed a pro se petition for writ -of mandamus in the trial court in Mr. Gonder’s criminal case. In the petition, Ms. Gonder contended that the State in her son’s case had violated Act 1262 of 1997, codified at Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-90-1107 (1997), which sets out the duty of law enforcement…