Boyd v. State

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Dwayne Boyd was convicted of the sale of marijuana, greater than thirty grams but less than one kilogram, within 1,500 feet of a school or within 1,000 feet of the real property of a school. The Madison County Circuit Court sentenced Boyd as a subsequent drug offender to 120 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with sixty years to serve and five years of supervised post-release supervision.

¶ 2. On appeal, Boyd raises the following assignments of error: whether (1) the trial court abused its discretion in denying his request…