Phillips v. State

IRVING, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Desmond Earl Phillips filed a petition for post-conviction relief, attacking the validity of his prior burglary convictions which were used to enhance the sentence for a later cocaine conviction. The trial judge dismissed the petition without a hearing, and Phillips appealed raising the following issues: (1) the trial judge erred in dismissing his (Phillips’s) petition as time barred, and (2) the trial judge erred in dismissing the petition without conducting an evidentiary hearing.

¶ 2. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the trial judge’s dismissal of…