Patrick Fluker v. State of Mississippi

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Patrick Fluker filed a motion for post-conviction relief (PCR) in the Circuit Court of Forrest County. The circuit court found his motion to be procedurally barred as a successive pleading and dismissed it. Fluker appealed, and this Court assigned his appeal to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the motion for PCR. This Court granted Fluker’s petition for certio-rari. We affirm the judgments of the Court of Appeals and the Circuit Court of Forrest County, but clarify and correct the analysis of the law…