The Mississippi Supreme Court handed down one opinion today in a direct criminal appeal. There are several noteworthy orders including an order suspending a lawyer from practice and an order adopting the Mississippi Collaborative Law Rules.
Williams v. State, 2023-KA-00153-SCT (Criminal – Felony)
Affirming denial of defendant’s motion for new trial after he was convicted of sexual battery, holding that conflicting testimony did not prove that the verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence.
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Other Orders
- In Re: Rules for Collaborative Law, 89-R-99044-SCT (En banc order granting the Mississippi Bar’s Petition to Create Rules for Collaborative Law and adopting the Mississippi Collaborative Law Rules) (Note – I suppose these rules will join twenty-three other sets of rules under the MS Rules of Court.)
- The Mississippi Bar v. Rogers, 2024-BD-00215-SCT (suspending respondent from the practice of law)
- Smith v. Ford, 2022-CT-00255-SCT (denying cert)
- Fluker v. State, 2022-CT-00692-SCT (granting cert)
- Barefield v. Barefield, 2022-CT-00834-SCT (denying cert)
- Quinn v. State, 2022-CT-00962-SCT (granting cert)
- Hunter v. State, 2022-CT-01269-SCT (dismissing cert petition as untimely)
- In Re: Administrative Orders of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, 2024-AD-00001-SCT (directing the disbursement of $176,989.51 in civil legal assistance funds among the MS Center for Legal Services, MS Volunteer Lawyers Project, and North MS Rural Legal Services)
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