Pennington v. Hobbs

|TIn 1978, appellant Frederick Pennington, Jr., entered a negotiated plea of guilty in the Pulaski County Circuit Court to first-degree murder, four counts of aggravated robbery, and first-degree battery. He received concurrent sentences of life imprisonment for the charge of first-degree murder and each of the aggravated-robbery charges and 240 months’ imprisonment for the battery charge. 1 Appellant was a minor at the time of the commission of the crimes. 2

lain 2012, appellant, who was incarcerated at a facility of the Arkansas Department of Correction located in Jefferson County, filed a…