Ratcliff v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Demetric Ratcliff waited nearly a decade before seeking post-conviction relief (PCR) from his 2003 guilty plea to selling cocaine. In 2012, he claimed for the first time that his indictment was defective and that a conflict of interest existed because the presiding judge, while previously serving as an assistant district attorney, had signed Ratcliffs indictment. After review, we find Ratcliffs failure to timely raise these challenges within three years, as mandated by statute, resulted in them being properly time-barred by the circuit judge.

¶ 2. And even had he…