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ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION III
No. CR-13-635
Opinion Delivered June 4, 2014
DEANDRE CONNORS
APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE PULASKI
COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, FIFTH
DIVISION [NO. CR-11-3265]
V.
HONORABLE WENDELL GRIFFEN,
JUDGE
STATE OF ARKANSAS AFFIRMED; MOTION TO
APPELLEE WITHDRAW GRANTED
JOHN MAUZY PITTMAN, Judge
Appellant was found guilty by a jury of possession of a controlled substance (cocaine)
with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use it to process or
pack a controlled substance. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to consecutive prison
terms totaling forty-one years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.
Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and Arkansas Supreme Court
Rule 4-3(k),1 appellant’s counsel has filed a motion to be relieved, stating that there is no
merit to the appeal. The motion is accompanied by an abstract and addendum of the
proceedings below, including all objections and motions decided adversely to appellant, and
a brief in which counsel explains why there is nothing in the record that would support an
appeal. The clerk of this court served appellant with a copy of his counsel’s brief and notified
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We note for the benefit of appellant’s counsel that this rule was amended in 2008,
resulting in former Rule 4-3(j) being redesignated as 4-3(k).
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him of his right to file a pro se statement of points for reversal within thirty days. Appellant
has filed no such statement.
From our review of the record and the brief presented to us, we find compliance with
Rule 4-3(k) and that the appeal is without merit. Accordingly, counsel’s motion to withdraw
is granted, and the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
Affirmed; motion to withdraw granted.
HIXSON and WOOD, JJ., agree.
Danny R. Williams, for appellant.
No response.
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