Rowland v. State

¶ 30. I dissent from the majority opinion herein.

¶ 31. Robert Rowland filed a request for post-conviction relief in the Washington County Circuit Court, alleging that he had been subjected to double jeopardy. Rowland argued that the circuit court imposed upon him separate sentences for capital murder, as well as separate sentences for the armed robberies that were the underlying offenses of the capital murders. The circuit court summarily denied Rowland’s request as barred by the three-year statute of limitations established by our post-conviction relief statutes. Rowland has appealed that…