The Mississippi Supreme Court handed down one opinion on Thursday in a direct criminal appeal.
The bigger news from yesterday is that the NCAA filed a petition for interlocutory appeal in the Trinidad Chambliss case. Trinidad’s lawyers have two weeks to file a response and then we wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether to allow an appeal of the preliminary injunction. I wrote about this process in an earlier post.
Vance v. State, 2025-KA-00444-SCT (Criminal – Felony)
Affirming conviction of first-degree murder, holding that trial counsel was not constitutionally ineffective by not objection to two jury instructions or for not requesting a manslaughter instruction other than culpable-negligence manslaughter, that the trial court did not err in sustaining an objection to the defendant’s question to a lay witness about whether she perceived the defendant was being abused at home, that the verdict was not against the overwhelming weight of the evidence and that the conviction was supported by sufficient evidence, and that the ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim regarding a failed attempt to introduce security camera recording.
(7-0: Sullivan for the Court)
Other Orders
- Harris v. State, 2023-M-00195 (denying application for leave to file motion for PCR, finding it frivolous, and restricting the petitioner from filing further applications in forma pauperis)
- Buck v. State, 2024-CT-00025-SCT (denying cert)
- Ralston v. Ralston, 2025-TS-01096 (denying emergency motion to for stay of incarceration)
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