Court Opinion

ID: 4923688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-22 04:24:51.683509+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:11.817658
License: Public Domain

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,
dissenting:
¶37. I fully agree with Justice Coleman’s well-reasoned opinion that this Court exceeded the limits of its constitutional authority when it decided Stewart v. State;8 that we should now overrule that opinion; and that retroactive application of that change creates due-process concerns. But, applying Stewart’s holding to this case, it is clear that Hampton received an illegal sentence. So I agree with Justice Chandler that Hampton’s claim is excepted from procedural bars, and that Hampton’s sentence exceeded a reasonable calculation of his life expectancy.

. Stewart v. State, 372 So.2d 257 (Miss.1979).