McDonald v. State

Randolph McDonald, by attorney Laura Cunningham, has filed a motion for rule on the clerk. The clerk refused to file McDonald’s appeal because the notice of appeal was untimely. McDonald seeks an order that the clerk be instructed to file the appeal because the clerk erred in misapprehending the facts or misinterpreting the law. We deny the motion.

McDonald states that he is proceeding under Ark. R. Crim. P. 24.3(b), which permits entry of a conditional plea of guilty and appeal from the judgment to obtain appellate review of an adverse determination on a pretrial motion to suppress evidence.…