Jose E. Ramos, 36, serving a 60-year sentence for shooting a man in Norwich over a minor barroom slight, has been spending a lot of time writing legal documents.

Ramos appeared Monday in New London Superior Court to address a thick stack of handwritten and typed documents he sent to the court from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. Wearing a neon orange jumpsuit and shackled at the hands and feet, he stood before Judge Hillary B. Strackbein, who told him his rights would be preserved but that his claims would not be considered while he still has a "habeas" case pending. Such claims are dealt with in Rockville Superior Court.

Ramos stands convicted of shooting Tynel Hardwick, 29, in the head on Oct. 10, 2008, as Hardwick stood outside Rumors Bar & Grill on Boswell Avenue smoking a cigarette. Ramos was arrested in Queens, N.Y., four years later, found guilty at a jury trial in Superior Court in Norwich in 2016 and sentenced to the maximum term in prison.

Testimony at his trial in 2016 indicated that after a small tiff inside the bar, Ramos left and retrieved a rifle he kept at his sister's home in Norwich. He laid in wait in a grassy lot 143 feet from the front door of the bar and killed Ramos with a single gunshot to the head.

Ramos' self-authored court filing is a "writ of era coram nobis," which would allow his conviction to be overturned if there were facts that were not on the trial record that might have changed the outcome of the case. Prosecutor Lawrence J. Tytla, who had tried the case, said the writ is an "extraordinary" court order that would be applied only after all other appeals are exhausted.

The state Appellate Court has affirmed Ramos' conviction, but he still has a writ of habeas corpus pending and is represented by attorney Damon Kirschbaum. That case is expected to be tried in February 2020.

"We get a lot of rather odd filings from Mr. Ramos," Tytla said. "It would be appropriate for him to file them through his attorney."

Ramos said he had not yet met his attorney.