Sartin v. State

[¡The court of appeals certified this criminal case to us pursuant to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule l-2(b)(5) (2009) as an issue needing clarification or development of the law. The question certified to us is whether a single omission from a no-merit brief necessarily requires rebriefing. We hold that it does, and we order rebriefing and remand the matter to the court of appeals.

On June 17, 2008, appellant Antonio Deshun Sartin was convicted of aggravated robbery and felony theft of property. He was sentenced to twenty and ten years’ imprisonment, respectively, in the Arkansas Department of…