ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT

NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

PER CURIAM

JANUARY 25, 2001

CHARLES GADDIE

Petitioner

v.

STATE OF ARKANSAS

Respondent

CR 00-1232

PRO SE MOTION TO EXPEDITE CONSIDERATION OF MOTION FOR BELATED APPEAL OF ORDER [CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI COUNTY, CR 97-2755, HON. DAVID BOGARD]

MOTION TO EXPEDITE DENIED

Charles Gaddie was found guilty by a jury of rape and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. The court of appeals affirmed. Gaddie v. State, CACR 98-1074 (December 15, 1999). Gaddie subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37 in the trial court which was denied. Gaddie did not file a timely notice of appeal and has tendered the record here with a motion for belated appeal. Now before us is petitioner Gaddie's motion asking that consideration of the motion for belated appeal be expedited on the conclusory ground that he is "factually innocent" of the offense of which he was convicted.

The motion to expedite is denied. Petitioner has not demonstrated that there is any good cause for his motion for belated appeal to be considered before motions pending in other cases.

Motion to expedite denied.