Allen v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Martez Allen filed a post-conviction relief (PCR) motion attacking the revocation of his suspended sentence. The circuit judge summarily dismissed the motion. On appeal, Allen places much em*209phasis on his belief that he was originally sentenced to a term of post-release supervision. But he was really serving a straight suspended sentence for burglary, which the judge revoked after Allen pled guilty to a new crime — selling marijuana. But no matter the label of the original noncustodial portion of Allen’s sentence, the fact is, he pled guilty to a new drug charge,…