Fairley v. State

MYERS, J.,

for the court.

¶ 1. Walter Dominique Fairley pled guilty to armed robbery on July 22, 1997, and was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. After two letters written to Judge Robert G. Evans and failed motions to vacate judgment and reconsider sentence, Fairley filed his post-conviction relief petition June 12, 2000, per the statute. Mississippi Code Annotated § 99-39 -5(2) (Supp.2001). He alleged that the judge and his attorney induced him to plead guilty by omitting the clarification that if Fairley did so his “plea would be self…