Tinker v. State

OPINION

SULLIVAN, Judge.

Appellant, Anthony Tinker, challenges the post-conviction court's dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief with prejudice, claiming that the trial court's decision was an abuse of discretion.

We affirm.

In March 1995, Tinker was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and sentenced to concurrent sentences of forty-five years upon each count. Upon direct appeal, a panel of this court affirmed Tinker's convictions. See Tinker v. State, No. 49A02-9504-CR-200, 665 N.E.2d 962 (Ind.Ct.App. June 10, 1996). Almost two years later, on April 29, 1998, Tinker filed…