Dennis Darnell Howard v. State of Mississippi

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 2008, this Court affirmed Dennis Howard’s conviction of armed robbery. See Howard v. State, 2 So.3d 669 (Miss.Ct.App.2008), cert. denied, 999 So.2d 1280 (Miss.2009). Howard subsequently requested and received permission from the Mississippi Supreme Court to file a post-conviction relief (PCR) motion on the question of whether his trial counsel had prevented him from testifying in his own defense.

¶ 2. At the evidentiary hearing, Howard testified that he had told his trial attorney he wanted to testify, but the attorney just ignored him and rested the case without…