Legal Opinion
Pedraza v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided March 3, 2016No. CR-15-542PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
■ | tin 2013, appellant Daniel Pedraza entered a plea of guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his two-year-old stepdaughter. He elected to be sentenced by a jury. The jury was instructed that the range of sentencing for the offense was ten to forty years or life, and a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. Pedraza appealed from the sentence, and this court affirmed. Pedraza v. State, 2014 Ark. 298, 438 S.W.3d 226.
In- 2014, Pedraza timely filed in the trial court a pro se verified petition for postcon-viction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2013)…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Anderson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2011
- Mancia v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2015
- Scott v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2012
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Davis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2018
- Bridgeman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2017
- Slater v. StateCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 2017
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2016
- Hansler v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2017
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