Beeks v. State

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 1999, James Beeks pled guilty to armed robbery. The circuit court sentenced him to thirty years, with ten suspended. After sentencing Beeks, the judge erroneously stated that Beeks was statutorily prohibited from being released for ten years because a firearm was used in the robbery. Beeks interpreted this to mean he would be released in ten years. But when Beeks learned his jailers intended to keep him for the whole twenty years, he filed a petition to clarify his sentence. The trial court denied it. This appeal stems from Beeks’s second filing — his first…