COMPTON, Senior Justice.
In this habeas corpus appeal, the dispositive question is whether the trial court correctly ruled that a prisoner's second petition for a writ of habeas corpus was procedurally barred under Code § 8.01-654(B)(2), which controls the filing of successive habeas petitions.
On March 13, 1987, appellant Micah Laval Dorsey was sentenced to a total of 55 years' confinement for convictions of five felonies. He did not appeal the judgment...
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