WARDLEY v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 1995, a jury sitting before the Franklin County Circuit Court found Billy L. Wardley, Jr. guilty of the sale of crack cocaine. Wardley v. State, 760 So.2d 774, 776 (¶¶ 4-5) (Miss.Ct.App.1999). The circuit court sentenced Wardley as a habitual offender to thirty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Id. Wardley appealed his conviction, but this Court found no merit to his arguments on appeal and affirmed. Id. at 775 (¶ 1).

¶ 2. Approximately thirteen years later, Wardley filed a “petition to show cause” in the Hinds County Circuit…