Timothy Robert Ronk a/k/a Timothy Ronk a/k/a Timothy R. Ronk v. State of Mississippi

Summary

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied Ronk's successive post-conviction motion and held that ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel claims no longer provide an exception to the UPCCRA's time and successive-writ bars. The court partially overruled the prior decision recognizing that exception, concluding that the statutory bars cannot be judicially amended or ignored. It also held that Ronk's specific ineffective-assistance, prosecutorial-misconduct, false-testimony, suppression, and cumulative-error claims either were barred, lacked an arguable basis, or failed to satisfy the newly discovered evidence exception.