Hooper v. State

_|jln 2005, petitioner Danny Lee Hooper was found guilty by a jury of three counts of rape, kidnapping, robbery, residential burglary, and third-degree battery and sentenced as a habitual offender to an aggregate sentence of 1,320 months’ imprisonment. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed, noting that evidence was adduced at trial, which included the victim’s testimony and DNA testing, that petitioner had entered the victim’s house at night and engaged in vaginal and anal intercourse with her. Hooper v. State, CR-05-1381, 2006 WL 2502235 (Ark.App. Aug. 30, 2006) (unpublished). Subsequently,…