Arnold v. State

CARTER, Justice.

Postconvietion applicant, William Dale Arnold, who had pursued both a direct appeal and an earlier postconvietion application challenging the same conviction now at issue, appeals from summary disposition of a second postconvietion application. The court of appeals reversed the district court’s summary disposition of Arnold’s application. That summary disposition had been premised on the district court’s conclusion that, in resisting the State’s motion for summary judgment, Arnold had not adequately demonstrated why the grounds for relief now being urged had not been presented…