Kirby Shavers v. State of Mississippi

CARLTON, J.,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Kirby Shavers filed a motion for postconviction relief (PCR) in the Rankin County Circuit Court alleging that he received an illegal sentence and ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court dismissed Shavers’s PCR motion as time-barred and successive-writ barred. Shavers filed a motion for reconsideration, which the trial court denied. This appeal followed. Finding no error, we affirm the trial court’s summary dismissal of Shavers’s PCR motion.

FACTS

¶ 2. On August 4, 2008, Shavers pleaded guilty in the Rankin County Circuit Court to rape, kidnapping,…