Sanders v. State

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Terry Sanders originally pleaded guilty to murder in 1981 and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life without parole. On June 24, 2008, Sanders filed a motion for post-conviction relief in the Circuit Court for the Second Judicial District of Harrison County. The circuit court found that Sanders had previously filed a motion for post-conviction relief based on the same allegations, the denial of which the supreme court had affirmed. See Sanders v. State, 700 So.2d 329 (Miss.1997). Therefore, the circuit court found that Sanders’s motion was barred as a…