Bond v. State

bln 2008, appellant Kelton Esquire Bond was convicted by a jury of multiple drug-related offenses and sentenced to an aggregate term of 115 years’ imprisonment.1 The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment. Bond v. State, 2010 Ark. App. 664, 2010 WL 3934599. Appellant subsequently filed in the circuit court a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2008), a motion for an evidentiary hearing, and a motion to appoint counsel. The circuit court denied appellant’s petition without a hearing and further denied appellant’s motion to appoint…