Clarence Jones v. State of Mississippi

RANDOLPH, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 1992, Clarence Jones pleaded guilty to murder in the Circuit Court of Warren County, receiving a sentence of life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Jones’s sentence was indefinitely suspended in 2004 by Governor Musgrove. He was released from prison on parole. In 2008, Governor Barbour granted Jones a pardon. In 2013, Jones moved the Circuit Court of Warren County to expunge his record because he had received a pardon for his conviction.

¶ 2. After a hearing on the matter, the trial court denied Jones’s…