Ward v. State

| aIn 2006, appellant Terry Lee Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of an eleven-year-old girl. We affirmed. Ward v. State, 370 Ark. 398, 260 S.W.3d 292 (2007).

Ward subsequently retained counsel, and, in 2007, counsel timely filed Ward’s verified petition pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2006) in the trial court. In 2014, a- hearing was held on the petition at which Ward was represented by counsel.1 At the hearing, the trial court informed Ward that he must either allow counsel to represent him or choose to represent himself because the court would not…