Williams v. State

| lAppellant, Michael Lee Williams, appeals the Pulaski County Circuit Court’s denial, following a hearing, of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 37.1 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure. For reversal, Williams maintains that his counsel was ineffective for failing to present exculpatory testimony or statements from three codefendants. We agree with the circuit court that Williams’s argument is without merit. Accordingly, we affirm the denial of postcon-viction relief.

Williams was convicted by a Pulaski County jury of five counts of aggravated robbery and…