Dillon Williams v. State of Mississippi

COLEMAN, JUSTICE,

CONCURRING:

¶ 8. I concur with the majority’s reasoning and conclusion that no merit can be found in Williams’s claim. I write separately because the Court never has properly addressed the effect of the codification of various bars to post-conviction relief, such as the two at issue today, on the fundamental-rights exception .to the procedural bars. Because the Legislature can only enact substantive law and may not enact procedural law in the form of bars to relief or any other, I would overrule Rowland v. State, 42 So.3d 503 (Miss. 2010), Rowland v. State, 98 So.3d 1032…