Wooton v. State

The Supreme Court denied Petitioner’s pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the circuit court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that Petitioner neither demonstrated that the writ should issue nor was he diligent in raising his claims.Petitioner was convicted of capital murder and other crimes. Petitioner was serving a time of life imprisonment without parole on the capital-murder charge when he brought his petition, in which he asserted that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance during trial. Because ineffective assistance of counsel claims are not grounds for the writ, Petitioner failed to demonstrate that the writ should issue. Further, Petitioner failed to give a valid excuse for his delay in raising the claim. View "Wooton v. State" on Justia Law