Deere v. State

I agree that we should affirm the revocation of appellant’s suspended sentence, and write this concurring opinion to elaborate on the harm posed by appellant’s counsel, Heather Patrice Hogrobrooks, in her persistent refusal to comply with the abstracting rule.

By my count, this is the fifth reported decision in two years where an appellate court has found Hogrobrooks to have filed a flagrantly deficient abstract. Four of the cases (including this one) involved criminal appeals; one appeal arose from a civil judgment. See Allen v. Routon, 57 Ark. App. 137, 943 S.W.2d 605 (1997). A lawyer who…