Hammon v. State

A NNABELLE CLINTON IMBER, Justice.

Dave Wisdom Harrod, Robert C. Marquette, and Daniel G. Ritchey have each filed motions to withdraw as counsel in three separate appeals from circuit court orders denying petitions for postconviction relief under Ark. R. Crim. P. 37. The three motions are treated as a case in order to resolve the construction of Rule 16 of the Arkansas Rules of Appellate Procedure—Criminal in relation to this court’s prior case law holding there is no constitutional right to appointment of counsel in state postconviction proceedings. We now hold that, when this court allows…