Porter v. State

The appellant, Calvin Porter, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die by lethal injection. We affirmed the conviction and sentence in Porter v. State, 321 Ark. 555, 905 S.W.2d 835 (1995). Porter subsequently sought a stay of the mandate while he petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. We granted the stay on October 23, 1995.

The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Porter v. Arkansas, 116 S.Ct. 1329 (1996), on March 25,1996. Consequendy, this court issued the mandate from the direct appeal on April 1, 1996.

Porter sought postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas…