Parker v. State

GREENLEE, J„

FOR THE COURT:

¶1. This is an appeal from Lowndes County Circuit Court where Atiba Parker moved for post-conviction collateral relief (PCR) from his 2009 felony conviction of possession of less than one-tenth of one gram of cocaine and sentence as a habitual offender and subsequent drug offender to eight years’ imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). The circuit court dismissed Parker’s motion because it was time-barred and his sentence was not illegal. On appeal, Parker asserts that his motion is exempt from the time-bar, that his guilty…