Kelly Mann v. State of Mississippi

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Kelly Mann was indicted on May 5, 1993, for capital murder, while “engaged in the commission of the crime of robbery[.]” On August 9, 1993, based on the State’s recommendation, Mann pleaded guilty to lesser charges of simple murder and armed robbery. For the murder count, he was sentenced to life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. For the armed-robbery conviction, he was sentenced to serve forty years, with the sentence to run consecutively to the life sentence imposed for the murder conviction.

¶2. This is Mann’s fifth motion for…