Means v. State

¶ 34. “When reviewing a lower court’s decision to deny a petition for post conviction relief this Court will not disturb the trial court’s factual findings unless they are found to be clearly erroneous.” Brown v. State, 731 So.2d 595, 598 (Miss.1999) (citing Bank of Miss. v. Southern Mem’l Park, Inc., 677 So.2d 186, 191 (Miss.1996)) (emphasis added). Despite that deferential standard of review, the Majority reverses and remands, relying solely upon Means’s petition, while confessing the record before us is incomplete. See Maj. Op. at ¶¶1, 25, 27-28. In so ruling, the Majority spurns our…