Bienemy v. State

| Appellant Joseph M. Bienemy was convicted of capital murder, as an accomplice, for the death of Carlos Deadmon, and this court affirmed the judgment. Bienemy v. State, 374 Ark. 232, 287 S.W.3d 551 (2008). In 2008, Bienemy filed in the trial court a pro se petition for postconviction relief under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2015) and, on the same day, he filed a petition for scientific testing under Act 1780 of 2001 Acts of Arkansas, as amended by Act 2250 of 2005 and codified as Arkansas Code Annotated sections 16-112-201 to -208 (Repl. 2006). The trial court denied the Rule…