Opinion ID: 1695166
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: on motion to vacate or set aside judgment, conviction and sentence of death

Text: This matter is before the Court on a second and successive Application For Leave To File Motion To Vacate Or Set Aside Judgment, Conviction and Sentence of Death filed pursuant to the Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-1, et seq. (1994). Carl Daniel Lockett was convicted of the capital murder of John Calhoun and sentenced to death by virtue of jury verdicts returned in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. This Court, on direct appeal, affirmed Lockett's conviction and sentence. On a later date, we denied Lockett's first application to proceed in the trial court for post-conviction relief. Lockett has filed a second and successive application in this court seeking leave to file in the trial court yet another motion for post-conviction collateral relief. Lockett seeks vacation of both his conviction of capital murder and the sentence of death imposed in its wake. Without passing judgment on the actual merits of his three (3) allegations, we deny Lockett's second application for post-conviction relief by virtue of the time bar found in Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-5(2) (1994) and the successive writ bar found in Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-27(9) (1994). In short, each of the three (3) claims made belatedly by Lockett is doubly barred.