Opinion ID: 1924782
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Heading: petition time-barred

Text: When the Mississippi legislature, in 1984, passed the Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, it included a three year period of limitation for filing such action. Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-5(2) (Supp. 1992). The act was not in effect at the time of Campbell's guilty plea but Campbell had three years from the date of the enactment of the statute on April 17, 1984, in which to file a petition for post conviction relief. Jackson v. State, 506 So.2d 994, 995 (Miss. 1987). Campbell's deadline for filing under the statute was April 17, 1987. Campbell did not file a petition seeding post-conviction relief until August 29, 1989, approximately 28 months after his three year filing period had elapsed. Section 99-39-5(2) provides that the time bar will not be imposed if Campbell demonstrates that: (1) there has been an intervening decision of this Court or the U.S. Supreme Court which would have actually adversely affected the outcome of his conviction or sentence, or (2) there is evidence, not reasonably discoverable at time of trial, which, had it been introduced at trial, would have caused a different result in his conviction or sentence. Campbell offers neither an intervening case nor new evidence to overcome the time bar. Because he filed his petition outside the statutory three year time period and did not present either an intervening case or new evidence as an exception to the time limitation, we find that the petition was time-barred.