Dillon v. State

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On June 20, 2008, Lawanda Dillon pleaded guilty in the Lincoln County Circuit Court to manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with six years suspended and five years of post-release supervision. The circuit court denied Dillon’s subsequent motion for post-conviction relief, and she now appeals. Finding no error, we affirm.

SUMMARY OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. On November 17, 2006, Dillon was fighting with Boris Jackson, her boyfriend. This was not the couple’s first altercation;…