Matlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “A circuit court has the power to correct clerical errors nunc pro tunc so that the record speaks the truth. Pursuant to Rule 60(b) (2016) of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure, a trial court may at any time correct clerical mistakes in judgments, decrees, orders, or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission. A true clerical error is one that arises, not from an exercise of the court's judicial discretion, but from a mistake on the part of its officers. ... A trial court maintains jurisdiction after a record is lodged on appeal to correct a judgment to speak the truth. (Once an appeal has been lodged, a trial court loses jurisdiction except to correct a judgment to speak the truth.) Generally, an issue becomes moot when any judgment rendered would have no practical effect upon a then existing legal controversy. ... Because the trial court maintained jurisdiction to enter the second amended order that provided Matlock with the remedy he sought in this appeal and because the State concedes that Matlock is entitled to the jail-time credit set forth in the second amended order, the question on appeal in now moot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alandt v. State