Friend v. Norris

Bobby Michael Friend is incarcerated in the Arkansas Department of Correction and brings this appeal of an order denying his pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus entered in Jefferson County Circuit Court. A judgment and commitment order entered in Sevier County Circuit Court July 28, 1994, reflects that appellant Friend entered a negotiated plea of guilty to each of two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. This court had previously reversed appellant’s convictions and death sentence on those charges, which arise from the beating deaths of…