Rayford v. Kelley

|TIn 1994, appellant Larry Rayford was found guilty by a jury of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. This court affirmed. Rayford v. State, 326 Ark. 656, 934 S.W.2d 496 (1996). Subsequently, Rayford sought postconviction relief through several legal remedies, including proceeding under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (1994), filing multiple petitions for writ of error coram nobis, and a habeas-corpus proceeding. See Rayford v. State, CR-96-428, 2008 WL 384645 (Ark. Feb. 14, 2008) (unpublished per curiam); Rayford v. State, CR-07-651, 2007 WL 3292915…