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272 Ark. 203

613 S.W.2d 90

Terry v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 16, 1981

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1981-03-16

Relies on Rogers v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1981-03-16

How this case has been cited

Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Jones v. State (1999), Bowden v. State (1996)

89 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Per Curiam.

¶1 William Terry, through his attorney, has filed a motion for a rule on the clerk. The motion admits that the record was not timely filed and states the reason for the delay is:

The record in this case arrived at the Appellate Public Defender’s office approximately two days before the due date, but was not turned over immediately to the attorney to whom it was assigned because the Appellate Public Defender’s director was involved with legislative efforts to continue operation of said office.

¶2 If the motion, verified, had stated that the attorney was at fault in making an error in the computation of time, or gave any good cause, the motion could be granted.

¶3 In a per curiam opinion regarding belated appeals rendered February 5, 1979, 265 Ark. 964, we discussed the problem of an untimely tender of a record caused by the attorney. There we said that we have no alternative except to grant the motion for relief in such a case. However, we pointed out that a copy of the per curiam order would be forwarded to the Committee on Professional Conduct as is our practice.

¶4 We do not hold that we will deny this belated appeal when a good cause is shown to grant the rule on the clerk.

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