Jackson v. State

Appellant Richard J. Jackson brings this appeal from the denial by the trial court of his pro se "petition to reconsider and/or modify sentence." Jackson argued in the petition, which sought postconviction relief from his sentence,1 that a hearing should be held so that he could make the trial court aware of new and mitigating circumstances that would affect the sentence imposed in his criminal case. The trial court denied the relief sought on the grounds that Jackson's petition was meritless. While Jackson did not invoke either Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 or Arkansas Code…