Richard Chapman v. State of Mississippi

¶ 17. I join Justice Coleman’s dissent in which he finds that Chapman’s third attempt at post-conviction relief is time-barred under the three-year statute of limitations found in Section 99-39-5(2) of the Mississippi Code. I write separately to encourage my fellow justices not to be “manipulated by Chapman’s untimely machinations of the post-conviction-relief process.” Bell v. State, 66 So.3d 90, 95 (Miss.2011) (Randolph, P.J., dissenting).

¶ 18. On January 27, 1982, a jury found Chapman guilty of rape, and the circuit court sentenced him to life imprisonment. A few months later, Chapman…