Johnson v. State

MAXWELL, J, for the Court:

¶ 1. Alex Durode Johnson III appeals the dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief (PCR petition). Because Johnson’s present petition is successive to a previous one and was filed outside of the three-year statute of limitations, we find it is procedurally barred from our review. Accordingly, we affirm the circuit court’s judgment of dismissal without reaching the merits of his argument.

FACTS

¶ 2. On April 4, 2006, Johnson pleaded guilty to possession of an unquantified amount of cocaine. He was sentenced to twelve years in the custody of the Mississippi…