BEQIRI v. State

Josephine Linker Hart, Judge.

Bedri Beqiri was convicted J in a Pulaski County bench trial of passing a hot check in an amount greater than $2,500, and he was sentenced to sixty months’ probation and ordered to make restitution. Beqiri’s appellate counsel had previously submitted a no-merit brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and Rule 4-30 of the Rules of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. However, in an unpublished opinion, handed down on June 29, 2005, we denied Beqiri’s appellate counsel’s motion to withdraw and ordered that he submit a merit brief…