Shields v. State

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Roderick Shields contends his 2002 conviction for forcible rape must be set aside because his indictment cited the wrong subsection of the rape statute. Shields’s post-conviction relief (PCR) claim is time-barred, and, at any rate, the citation was correct when he was indicted; the statute was rearranged in 2003. We find no merit to this or any other issues raised by Shields, and so we affirm the circuit court’s dismissal of his PCR motion.

FACTS

¶ 2. Shields was indicted on April 23, 2002, by a Washington County grand jury. The first line of the document, resembling…