Butler v. State

|,Appellant Ellis Charles Butler appeals the denial of his petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2007). He argues on appeal that he did not receive effective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

This case has a complicated procedural history. In 1997, appellant was convicted by a Faulkner County jury of three counts of rape and four counts of violation of a minor in the first degree. He was sentenced to sixteen years on each count of rape and three years on each count of first-degree violation of a minor, to run consecutively for a total of sixty…