Daniel Jeanty v. State of Mississippi

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Daniel Jeanty, a native and citizen of Haiti, appeals the dismissal of his second motion for post-conviction relief (PCR). He argues his counsel was ineffective for not informing him he faced deportation if he pled guilty. After review, we find Jeanty’s PCR motion is both untimely and successive to an earlier PCR motion. So it fails on procedural grounds. We also find the motion has no substantive merit because the current law that attorneys must advise clients of the potential risk of deportation resulting from a guilty plea did not exist when Jeanty entered…