Kirby v. State

Rush, Chief Justice.

Post-conviction relief is both limited and exclusive. It is available only within the strictures of the post-conviction rules, and when the rules allow post-conviction proceedings, relief generally cannot be pursued any other way.

Here, the petitioner tried to use post-conviction proceedings to challenge a statute barring him, as a serious sex offender, from school property. But that restriction is a collateral consequence of his conviction-and the post-conviction rules generally allow challenges only to a conviction or sentence. While we thus affirm the denial of…