Roberts v. Talley

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SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
No. CR-14-1089
Opinion Delivered June 4, 2015
DERRICK ROBERTS
PETITIONER PRO SE PETITION FOR WRIT OF
MANDAMUS
V. [COLUMBIA COUNTY CIRCUIT
COURT, NO. 14CR-09-113]
HONORABLE DAVID W. TALLEY, JR.,
CIRCUIT JUDGE
RESPONDENT PETITION MOOT.
PER CURIAM
Petitioner Derrick Roberts first filed in this court a pro se petition for writ of mandamus
on December 17, 2014. Roberts had filed in the Columbia County Circuit Court a pro se
petition for writ of error coram nobis on January 14, 2014. In the mandamus petition, Roberts
sought to have Circuit Judge Larry Chandler enter a final order on the coram-nobis petition.
On February 12, 2015, this court held that the mandamus action was moot because
Judge Chandler retired from the bench, and the coram-nobis petition was reassigned. Roberts
v. Chandler, 2015 Ark. 47 (per curiam). Roberts filed an amended petition for writ of mandamus
naming Circuit Judge David W. Talley, Jr., as the respondent. That amended petition is now
before us.
Judge Talley provided this court a copy of an order transferring the matter to Circuit
Judge Hamilton H. Singleton. Because the respondent, as of the date of this opinion, is no
longer responsible for acting on Roberts’s pending pleading, the amended petition for writ of
mandamus is also moot. See Standridge v. Putman, 2014 Ark. 208 (per curiam).
We again note that Roberts’s coram-nobis petition has been pending for more than one
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year and urge that the matter be disposed of promptly. The prompt resolution of all matters
before a court is vital to the administration of justice. McNichols v. Elmore, 2014 Ark. 133 (per
curiam).
Petition moot.
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