Legal Opinion

Jefferson v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided August 18, 2009No. 2008-CP-00809-COAPublished

1Opinion of the Court

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Earnest Jefferson, Jr., pled guilty to two charges of selling cocaine. Jefferson filed an unsuccessful motion for post-conviction relief in August 2007. Jefferson later filed a “petition for reduction of sentence.” The Lee County Circuit Court treated Jefferson’s petition as a motion for post-conviction relief and summarily denied it based on the prohibition against successive motions for post-conviction relief. Aggrieved, Jefferson appeals. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. The record contains two documents titled “statement of facts”…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Boyd v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2005
  2. Wortham v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2006

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