Norman v. State

Appellant, Dinzel Earl Norman, was con-IAM. by a jury of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and conspiracy to manufacture marijuana. He was sentenced by the Newton County Circuit Court to a combined term of forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. We affirmed appellant’s conviction and sentence in Norman v. State, 326 Ark. 210, 931 S.W.2d 96 (1996). Subsequendy, appellant petitioned for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37. After a hearing on appellant’s petition, the trial court determined that appellant had failed to show that his counsel’s performance…