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SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
No. CR-13-1074
EARL DELMAR PIGG Opinion Delivered January 16, 2014
APPELLANT
MOTION FOR LEAVE TO
V. WITHDRAW APPEARANCE AS
COUNSEL
STATE OF ARKANSAS
APPELLEE MOTION GRANTED.
PER CURIAM
Appellant Earl Delmar Pigg was convicted of eleven counts of rape and sentenced to
a term of life imprisonment. The circuit court entered a judgment and commitment order
on August 9, 2013. He then filed a timely notice of appeal on August 22, 2013. An appeal
from that judgment was lodged with this court on November 15, 2013. Appellant is
represented on appeal by William L. Griggs. Mr. Griggs was employed by the Arkansas
Public Defender Commission and appointed as trial counsel. Mr. Griggs is no longer
employed by the Commission and now asks that he be relieved as counsel.
Arkansas Rule of Appellate Procedure–Criminal 16(a)(i) (2013) requires that trial
counsel, whether retained or court-appointed, continue to represent a defendant throughout
any appeal unless permitted by the trial court or this court to withdraw in the interest of
justice or for other sufficient cause.
For the reasons set forth by Mr. Griggs, we hold that good cause to grant the motion
has been shown. Therefore, we grant Mr. Griggs’s motion to be relieved, and we appoint
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attorney Joseph C. Self to represent the appellant. Our clerk is directed to set a new briefing
schedule for the appeal.
Motion granted.
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