Legal Opinion
Myers v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided June 19, 1991No. 89-KP-1272PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
583 So.2d 174 (1991)
Timothy MYERS
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 89-KP-1272.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
June 19, 1991.
Timothy Myers, pro se.
Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.
ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:
I
This case presents the perennially troublesome question of whether and when a felon convicted on a plea of guilty may secure post-conviction relief on grounds his lawyer's advice was so problematical that his plea was, in law, involuntary. Today we face the more limited question whether the prisoner's complaint in this regard…
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