Rivers v. State

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On November 18, 2008, Jeffrey Rivers appeared in Hinds County Circuit Court and pled guilty to cocaine possession under Mississippi Code Annotated section 41-29-139 (Rev.2013). The court sen-*1090fenced Rivers to eight years, with eight years suspended and five years’ supervised probation. On March 15, 2012, the court revoked Rivers’s suspended sentence and ordered him to serve the remaining four years of his suspended sentence in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

¶2. Rivers filed his motion for post-conviction relief (PCR) on December 17, 2012.…