Barnett v. State

|TIn 2000, petitioner Rodney E. Barnett was convicted by a jury in the Mississippi County Circuit Court, Chickasawba District, of the capital murder of Lester Frazier and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. We affirmed. Barnett v. State, 346 Ark. 11, 53 S.W.3d 527 (2001).

In 2006, Barnett filed in this court a pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the circuit court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, in which he alleged that the prosecutor withheld material evidence to bolster the testimony of one of its witnesses, Larry Black. Specifically, Barnett…