Case ID: ark_329/html/0502-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sam STEWART v. STATE of Arkansas
    CR 97-942
    949 S.W.2d 893
    Supreme Court of Arkansas
    Opinion delivered September 11, 1997
    
      Irwin Law Firm, by: Robert E. Irwin, for appellant.
    No response.
   Per Curiam.

The appellant, Sam Stewart, has filed a motion styled, “Motion to File Belated Appeal and for a Rule on the Clerk.” Mr. Stewart’s attorney, Robert E. Irwin, admits that the notice of appeal was untimely filed due to negligence on his part.

We find that such an error, admittedly made by the attorney for a criminal defendant, is good cause to treat this motion as one for belated appeal and grant the motion. See In Re: Belated Appeals in Criminal Cases, 265 Ark. 964 (1979) (per curiam). A copy of this opinion will be forwarded to the Committee on Professional Conduct.