Beshears v. State

The appellant, Albert Beshears, entered a conditional plea of guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He was sentenced to forty years in prison. In the direct appeal, we affirmed the Trial Court’s denial of Beshears’s motion to suppress. Beshears v. State, 320 Ark. 573, 898 S.W.2d 49 (1995). Beshears subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37.

In the petition, Beshears alleged that his counsel was ineffective because he misled Beshears about the existence of an offer of a negotiated plea; because he failed to file a…