ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT
No. CR 07-44
DENNIS CAMERON
Appellant
v.
STATE OF ARKANSAS
Appellee
Opinion Delivered September 27, 2007
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF GARLAND COUNTY,
CR 2002-631, HON. CHARLES H.
EDDY, JUDGE; MOTION TO
WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL
APPEAL DISMISSED; MOTION TO
WITHDRAW GRANTED.
PER CURIAM
In 2005, a jury found appellant Dennis Cameron guilty of two counts of theft of property and
sentenced him to an aggregate term of 240 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of
Correction. On appeal, the Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment. Cameron v. State,
94 Ark. App. 58, ___ S.W.3d ___ (2006). Appellant filed a timely pro se petition for postconviction
relief under Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1 and the trial court appointed Mr. Jonathan Lane to represent
appellant in that proceeding. Following a hearing, the trial court entered an order that dismissed the
petition.
After lodging an appeal of that order in this court, Mr. Lane has filed a motion to withdraw
and a brief that asserted that any appeal of the denial of postconviction relief would be wholly
without merit. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-
3(j)(1) set requirements for the withdrawal of counsel for a defendant in a criminal case after a notice
of appeal has been filed on the basis that an appeal is without merit. While a “no-merit” brief is
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typically filed in a direct appeal from a judgment, this court permits the filing of no-merit briefs in
postconviction appeals. See Hewitt v. State, 362 Ark. 369, 208 S.W.3d 185 (2005) (per curiam);
Brady v. State, 346 Ark. 298, 57 S.W.3d 691 (2001) (per curiam).
Under Rule 4-3, an attorney who wishes to withdraw from an appeal must abstract and brief
all of the rulings that were adverse to his client, listing those rulings in his argument. While Mr.
Lane has failed to include such a list in his brief, he has addressed what is clearly the sole issue in
this case. On review of an order entered in a Rule 37.1 proceeding, we nee