Donald Keith Smith v. State of Mississippi

TINDELL, J., FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Donald Keith Smith filed a 2017 post-conviction relief (PCR) motion challenging his 2016 guilty plea and conviction in Jackson County Circuit Court, cause number 2008-10,145, for the charges of attempted kidnapping, armed carjacking, and fleeing and eluding a police officer. The circuit court dismissed portions of Smith's 2017 PCR motion after determining those portions to be successive-writ barred. 1 Because Smith's 2017 PCR motion was his first one following his 2016 guilty plea, it was not successive. We therefore must reverse and remand.

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¶ 2. On…