Brown v. State

hln 2013, appellant Bruce Wayne Brown filed in the trial court a pro se petition for postconviction relief under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2015). The timely petition challenged his conviction for the rape of his minor stepdaughter and life sentence, following this court affirming the judgment in Brown v. State, 2012 Ark. 399, 424 S.W.3d 288 (“Brown I”), The trial court summarily denied the Rule 37.1 petition and a petition to supplement in an order entered on March 6, 2013. Brown lodged an appeal in this court.

After the State alleged that the petition had not been properly…