ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

OCTOBER 16, 2003

CARMEN HENDRICKSON-ATKINSON

Appellant

v.

STATE OF ARKANSAS

Appellee

CR 02-1037

PRO SE MOTION TO STRIKE APPELLEE'S BRIEF [CIRCUIT COURT OF LONOKE COUNTY, CR 99-341]

MOTION DENIED

Per Curiam

In 2000, Carmen Hendrickson-Atkinson was found guilty of murder in the first-degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirmed. Hendrickson-Atkinson v. State , 347 Ark. 336, 64 S.W.3d 259 (2002).

Hendrickson-Atkinson subsequently filed in the trial court a timely petition pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37.1 seeking to vacate the judgment. The petition was denied, and the record on appeal from the order has been lodged here. Appellant Hendrickson-Atkinson filed the appellant's brief-in-chief and now seeks to strike the brief filed by the appellee State.

Appellant argues that the State's brief should be stricken because it is not signed by an attorney. The brief, however, conforms to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 4-2(9) in that the cover of the brief contains the name of counsel and other information required by the rule. Moreover, a cover letter signed by the attorney who prepared the State's brief accompanied the brief when it was tendered to our clerk for filing. Appellant has not demonstrated that the State's brief was in any way improper and subject to being stricken.

Motion denied.