Ward v. State

hln 2010, appellant Brian F. Ward entered a plea of guilty to rape and sexual assault in the second degree. He- was sentenced as a habitual offender to concurrent sentences of 120 months’ imprisonment -for rape and 180 months’ imprisonment for second-degree sexual assault. Imposition of an additional 180 months’ imprisonment for second-degree sexual assault was suspended. With respect to the 180-month sentence, the trial court applied Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-93-609 (Supp. 2003), requiring that the sentence imposed was to be served without possibility of parole.

On January 29, 2015,…