Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided May 22, 2018No. 2017–CP–00620–COAPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

FAIR, J., FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. In 1999, Eric Brown pled guilty to killing his girlfriend and their unborn child. This is his fifth motion for post-conviction relief. Brown contends that under Sanders v. State , 9 So.3d 1132, 1136 (¶ 16) (Miss. 2009), he should not have been allowed to plead guilty without an on-the-record competency hearing. He has raised this issue before, and we found Brown's claims time- and successive-writ barred because Sanders does not apply retroactively. Brown v. State , 198 So.3d 325, 325 (¶ 1) (Miss. Ct. App. 2015). For the same reasons as before, we affirm the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sanders v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009
  2. Eric LaQuinne Brown v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2015

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Eric LaQuinne Brown a/k/a Eric L. Brown a/k/a Eric Brown v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2023

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