Flannery v. Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services

Appellant Kelly Flannery, an inmate in the Arkansas Department of Correction, has filed a pro se motion seeking leave to file a belated appeal from an order of the Greene County Circuit Court terminating his parental rights in his minor children, J.O. and J.O. Pending the outcome of that motion, he has also filed a motion seeking a stay of adoption proceedings that are currently pending in the circuit court.

In his motion, Flannery avers that inmate attorney, Sharon Draper, who represented him during the termination proceedings, did not timely inform him that his parental rights had been…