Luper v. State

HOWARD W. BRILL, Chief. Justice

1, Appellant Mark Aaron Luper appeals the order denying his petition for postcon-viction relief. Luper was convicted by a Benton County jury of the rape, of his former stepdaughter, S.H., and sentenced to twenty-three years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Lu-per appealed, and the -court of appeals affirmed. See Luper v. State, 2015 Ark. App. 440, 468 S.W.3d 289. 1 Thereafter, Lu-per filed a petition for Lpostconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 37.1, in which he asserted eleven claims of ineffective assistance of…