Bester v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Twenty years after Charles Bester pled guilty in the Jones County Circuit Court, pursuant to a plea agreement, to the charges of forcible rape and robbery, and six years after a prior unsuccessful motion for post-conviction relief (PCR), he files again claiming his agreed-to sentence of life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) on the forcible-rape charge is unlawful. We disagree. We detect no “fundamental” constitutional violation implicated, and we affirm the circuit court’s summary dismissal of Bester’s PCR motion,…