Buchheit v. State

Keith Aaron Buchheit pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to thirty-two and one-half years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Buchheit entered his plea pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement with the prosecutor. Shortly after the judgment was entered, Buchheit alleged ineffective assistance of counsel in a petition for relief under Arkansas Criminal Procedure Rules 26 and 37.1 Specifically, Buchheit claimed that his guilty plea was involuntary because his attorney failed to advise him of a statute that would require him to serve at least seventy percent of his…