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SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
No. CR-13-1006
ROLANDIS LARENZO CHATMON Opinion Delivered JANUARY 16, 2014
APPELLANT MOTION TO BE RELIEVED AS
COUNSEL; MOTION FOR
V. APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL AND
EXTENSION OF BRIEF TIME
STATE OF ARKANSAS
APPELLEE MOTIONS GRANTED; BRIEFING
SCHEDULE ORDERED.
PER CURIAM
Appellant, Rolandis Larenzo Chatmon, was convicted in Faulkner County Circuit
Court of three counts of aggravated robbery and theft of property with a firearm enhancement
and was sentenced as a habitual offender to three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment
plus thirty years. Chatmon is represented on appeal by Karen Walker, a full-time public
defender. Ms. Walker now asks that she be relieved as counsel on the ground that she is
ineligible for compensation for services as appellate counsel.
Arkansas Code Annotated section 19-4-1604(b)(2)(B) (Repl. 2007) provides that
persons employed as full-time public defenders who are not provided a state-funded secretary
are eligible to seek compensation for appellate work. Counsel here affirms that she is a
full-time public defender with a full-time, state-funded secretary. Under these circumstances,
she is not entitled to be paid for services in this appeal, and her request to be relieved is well
founded. See Rhodes v. State, 2009 Ark. 138, 297 S.W.3d 551 (per curiam).
Therefore, we grant Ms. Walker’s motion to be relieved, and we grant Chatmon’s
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request to appoint him counsel. We appoint attorney Mr. Bobby R. Digby II to represent
Chatmon and direct our clerk to set a new briefing schedule for the appeal.
Motions granted; briefing schedule ordered.
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