Brown v. Hobbs

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2014 Ark. 267

SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS No. CV-13-1116 JEFFERY BROWN Opinion Delivered June 5, 2014 APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE LINCOLN V. COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT [NO. LCV-13-80] RAY HOBBS, DIRECTOR OF THE HONORABLE JODI RAINES ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF DENNIS, JUDGE CORRECTION APPELLEE AFFIRMED. KAREN R. BAKER, Associate Justice On May 18, 1982, Jeffery Brown entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder in the Clark County Circuit Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On June 24, 2013, Brown filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was being held without lawful…