Divan W. Diggs v. State of Mississippi

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 2012, Divan Diggs was arrested in Rankin County, Mississippi, for selling a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a church or within 1,000 feet of the church’s real pi-operty. Diggs pleaded guilty to the charge in the Rankin County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with twenty years suspended and ten years to serve, followed by five years of post-release supervision (PRS). - Diggs timely filed a-motion for postconviction relief (PCR), which was dismissed. Aggrieved, he…