Whitney v. State

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The Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s petition for writ of coram nobis, which rendered moot Appellant’s motion in which he sought permission to file a belated reply brief with a supplemental addendum.Appellant was convicted on eighteen counts of possession of child pornography. Appellant filed his petition for the writ, which the trial court treated as one for writ of error coram nobis and then concluded that it did not have authority to consider the petition. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court correctly treated the petition as one for error coram nobis relief; and (2) because at the time Appellant filed his petition he had not sought the Supreme Court’s permission to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to file a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to consider the petition. View "Whitney v. State" on Justia Law