Girley v. Hobbs

I,In 1998, appellant James Girley was found guilty of rape by a jury in the Pulaski County Circuit Court and sentenced to 300 months’ imprisonment. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed as modified. 1 Girley v. State, CR-98-1108, 1999 WL 172171 (Ark.App.Mar. 24, 1999) (unpublished) (original docket no. CACR 98-1108).

In 2013, appellant filed in the trial court a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Act 1780 of 2001, codified at Arkansas Code Annotated sections 16-112-201 to-208 (Repl.2006). Act 1780, as amended by Act 2250 of 2005, provides that a writ of habeas corpus can…