Title: Michael Wrenn, a/k/a Micheal Wrenn v. State of Arkansas

State: arkansas

Issuer: Arkansas Supreme Court

Document:

ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT No. CR 07­925 MICHAEL WRENN a/k/a MICHEAL WRENN Petitioner v. STATE OF ARKANSAS Respondent Opinion Delivered November 15, 2007 PRO SE MOTION FOR BELATED APPEAL [CIRCUIT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, CR 2003­132, HON. ROBERT H. WYATT, JR., JUDGE] MOTION DENIED. PER CURIAM In 2003, petitioner Michael Wrenn, who is also known as Micheal Wrenn, was found guilty by a jury of first­degree domestic battery, kidnapping and first­degree terroristic threatening. An aggregate sentence of 240 months’ imprisonment was imposed. The Arkansas Court of Appeals reversed and dismissed the conviction for first­degree domestic battery, and affirmed the convictions for kidnapping and first­degree terroristic threatening. Wrenn v. State, 92 Ark. App. 167, 211 S.W.3d 582 (2005). The court’s mandate was issued on October 20, 2005. On January3, 2006, seventy­five days after the mandate was issued, petitioner filed in the trial court a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The trial court denied the petition. No appeal was taken and petitioner now seeks leave to proceed with a belated appeal from the order. We need not consider petitioner’s reasons for failing to perfect an appeal because it is clear from the record that the Rule 37.1 petition was not timely filed in the trial court. This court will not ­2­ permit an appeal from an order that denied a petition for postconviction relief to go forward where it is clear that the appellant could not prevail. Pardue v. State, 338 Ark. 606, 999 S.W.2d 198 (1999) (per curiam); Seaton v. State, 324 Ark. 236, 920 S.W.2d 13 (1996) (per curiam). Pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.2(c), if an appeal was taken, a petition under the rule must be filed in the circuit court within sixty days of the date the mandate was issued by the appellate court. As stated, petitioner filed the petition for Rule 37.1 relief seventy­five days after the date of the mandate in his case, making the petition untimely. Time limitations imposed in Rule 37.2(c) are jurisdictional in nature, and a circuit court cannot grant relief on an untimely petition. Maxwell v. State, 298 Ark. 329, 767 S.W.2d 303 (1989). Motion denied.