ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT
No. CR 051112
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
CHARLES G. RODGERS
Appellant
v.
STATE OF ARKANSAS
Appellee
Opinion Delivered
March 16, 2006
PRO SE PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI,
MOTIONS FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE
BRIEF, AND FOR ACCESS TO RECORD
[CIRCUIT COURT OF PHILLIPS COUNTY, CR
2002171, HON. L. T. SIMES II, JUDGE]
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
GRANTED; MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF
TIME TO FILE BRIEF MOOT; MOTION FOR
ACCESS TO RECORD GRANTED
PER CURIAM
Appellant CharlesG.Rodgerswas convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. This
court affirmed. Rodgers v. State, ___ Ark. ___, ___ S.W.3d ___ (December 9, 2004) (CR 04534).
Appellant timely filed in the trial court a pro se petition for postconviction relief under Ark. R. Crim.
P. 37.1, which was denied by order entered April 15, 2005. Appellant untimely filed a notice of
appeal as to that order, and we granted a motion to proceed with a belated appeal. Rodgers v. State,
CR 05112 (Ark. November 3, 2005) (per curiam). We previously granted appellant’s motion
requesting access to the record and an extension of time to file appellant’s brief. Rodgers v. State,
CR 05112 (Ark. January 5, 2006) (per curiam). Now before us are appellant’s petition for a writ
of certiorari, and motions requesting an extension of time to file appellant’s brief and requesting
access to the record of his trial on direct appeal and to a transcript of a hearing in the postconviction
proceeding.
Appellant seeks a more complete record to be lodged. The trial court’s order of April 15,
2005, denying postconviction relief, indicates that there was a hearing at which appellant and the
prosecution were present, even though no evidentiary hearing was conducted. The petition for writ
of certiorari is granted inasmuch as the trial court referred to the hearing in its order and portions of
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the hearing may be pertinent to the appeal. The writ of certiorari is issued, returnable in thirty days,
to bring up the trans