Eric Young v. State of Mississippi

FAIR, J., FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. In January 2010, Eric Young pled guilty to armed robbery. He was sentenced to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with fifteen years to serve, five years suspended, and two years of supervised probation. Young filed a motion for "reconsideration of guilty plea and sentence" two weeks later. The circuit court entered an order denying the motion in 2014.

¶ 2. Young then filed a petition for post-conviction relief (PCR), claiming that his sentence violated the Equal Protection Clause because his co-defendant had received a more…