331 ARK 536 - Smith v. State

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2010

16 state decisions

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.

Per Curiam.

¶1Appellant Benfordene Butler Smith, by her attorney, Willard Proctor, Jr., has filed a motion to extend time for filing brief.

¶2Appellant’s brief was due on November 15, 1997. Appellant’s attorney admits that the brief has not been filed in a timely manner due to an error on his part. Specifically, appellant’s attorney failed to maintain the briefing schedule on his calendar. Furthermore, appellant’s motion to extend time for filing brief was not filed until January 14, 1998, after the Supreme Court Clerk sent a letter to appellant’s attorney regarding the status of briefing.

¶3 The motion to file belated brief is granted.

¶4We routinely grant motions to file belated briefs. However, because of the long delay by appellant’s attorney, a copy of this opinion will be forwarded to the Committee on Professional Conduct.