Jordan v. State

[ ¶ On February 27, 2010, the Benton County Sheriffs Office received a call that a seventy-five-year-old woman had been sexually assaulted in her home. The victim identified Brian Jordan, a former neighbor who had recently begun visiting her, as her attacker. In 2011, Jordan was found guilty by a jury of raping the victim and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. We affirmed. Jordan v. State, 2012 Ark. 277, 412 S.W.3d 150.

Jordan subsequently filed in the trial court a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2011) in which…