Adams v. State

¶ 17. While I concur with the result reached by the majority, I must write separately as I believe the analysis of Issue II to be flawed.

¶ 18. In Issue II, the majority address whether Adams’s sentence to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for armed robbery is illegal. Adams claims that the sentence is illegal because the trial court announced a sentence of twelve years at the conclusion of the April 16, 1997 hearing in which Adams pled guilty. On February 1, 2000, some two years and ten months later, Adams claims the trial court “resentenced” him for the…