Redus v. State

On June 7, 2018, petitioner Xavier Redus filed in the trial court a pro se petition to correct an illegal sentence under Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-90-111 (Repl. 2016). The trial court denied the petition. Redus did not timely file a notice of appeal, and now before us is his pro se motion for rule on clerk seeking to proceed with the appeal. As the notice of appeal was untimely, we treat the motion as a motion for belated appeal. Latham v. State , 2018 Ark. 44, 2018 WL 897481.

We need not consider Redus's reasons for not filing a timely notice of appeal because it is clear from the…