Legal Opinion

True v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided November 30, 2017No. CR-16-983PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJohn Dan Kemp, Chief Justice

Appellant Douglas David True appeals from the denial of his pro se petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure . 37.1 (2014), which alleged the following grounds for relief: 'that counsel failed to fully investigate and dévelop a theory of defense and instead pressured him to plead guilty to capital murder to avoid the imposition of the death penalty; that counsel failed to order a mental evaluation; and that his guilty plea was involuntary in that, at the time the plea was entered, counsel did not inform him that the prosecutor had not yet given…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Henington v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2012
  4. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2007
  5. Camargo v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1997

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Edward Joseph Reynolds v. State of ArkansasSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2020
  2. Laron Hayes, Jr. v. State of ArkansasSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2020
  3. Nicholas Roos v. State of ArkansasSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2019
  4. Randy James Myers v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2020
  5. Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of CorrectionSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2021

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