Coleman v. State

The pro se appellant, Derek Charles Coleman, was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. We affirmed his conviction and sentence in Coleman v. State, 314 Ark. 143, 860 S.W.2d 747 (1993). Coleman subsequently filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Criminal Procedure Rule 37. The Circuit Court denied relief without a hearing. In his appeal from that order, Coleman assigned error to the Circuit Court’s failure to make written findings in the order denying relief. We agreed that the order did not comply with the requirements…