Wright v. State

|TIn 2009, appellant Danny Wright entered a plea of guilty to kidnapping and stalking in the first degree. He was sentenced to serve an aggregate sentence of 180 months’ imprisonment with suspended imposition of a sentence of 60 months’ imprisonment.

In 2011, appellant filed in the trial court a motion to withdraw the guilty plea, which constituted a request for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2009). See Bell v. State, 2011 Ark. 379, 2011 WL 4396975 (per curiam). The trial court denied the motion, and appellant appealed to this court. He subsequently…