Walters v. State

Mark S. Fraiser, a state-salaried, full-time public defender for the Eighteenth Judicial District East, was appointed by the trial court to represent Appellant, Raymond Walters, an indigent defendant, on the charge of rape, a Class Y Felony. Following a trial, Walters was convicted of the charge and sentenced to life. A notice of appeal was timely filed and the record has been timely lodged in this court.

Mr. Fraiser now asks to be relieved as counsel for Appellant in this criminal appeal, based on the case of Rushing v. State, 340 Ark. 84, 8 S.W.3d 489 (2000). There, this court determined…