Hogue v. State

Rl respectfully dissent from this court’s denial of Greg Hogue’s petition for writ of error coram nobis. Hogue contends that the deputy prosecutor who prosecuted him and the circuit judge who presided over his trial were in an intimate relationship during the time of his trial. Contrary to the majority’s conclusion, Hogue has raised not only a claim of prosecutorial misconduct but also a claim of judicial bias, which we have recently held falls within the purview of an error coram nobis proceeding. McArthur v. State, 2017 Ark. 120, 515 S.W.3d 585, 2017 WL 1286790 (per curiam). By engaging in…