Mancia v. State

| ,On March 7, 2008, appellant, Cristobal Antonio Mancia, pleaded guilty to rape and was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. Pursuant to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-3(k) (2010), Mancia filed a brief on appeal asserting that there was no meritorious basis for his appeal. We agreed and affirmed Mancia’s conviction and held:

Although counsel indicates in his brief that there was no applicable exception to the general rule that there is no right to appeal from a plea of guilty, an appeal may be taken after a guilty plea when it alleges evidentiary errors which arose after the plea and…