Weekly v. State

hln 1986, appellant Charles Weekly entered a plea of guilty to rape and kidnapping charges in the Pulaski County Circuit Court in both case No. 60CR-86-299 and case No. 60CR-86-874. He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment in each of the cases for rape and a term often years’ imprisonment in each case for kidnapping.

In 2013, appellant filed in the trial court a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis, alleging that he had been subjected by the police to verbal and physical abuse to obtain confessions, he had been coerced by his attorney into pleading guilty by threats that the…