State v. Tejeda-Acosta

DONALD L. CORBIN, Justice.

_[^Appellant, the State of Arkansas, appeals the order of the Benton County Circuit Court granting Appellee Francisco Daniel Tejeda-Acosta’s petition for writ of error coram nobis and vacating his guilty pleas and sentence. The State’s sole point for reversal is that the circuit court erred as a matter of law by expanding the grounds for a writ of error coram nobis to include claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. We conclude that, despite the circuit court’s effort to stay within the bounds of established grounds for coram-nobis relief, the result of the…