Roberts v. State

PAUL E. DANIELSON, Justice.

| petitioner Karl Roberts moves this court to reopen the proceedings and to reinvest the circuit court with jurisdiction to hear his postconviction petition pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.5 (2012).1 While Roberts previously waived his right to seek post-conviction relief, he now seeks to rescind that waiver and asserts that a mandatory review should be extended to postcon-viction proceedings in death cases; his prior waiver was invalid and involuntary; and a rejection of his attempt to rescind his waiver would violate “the solid footing…