Legal Opinion

Lanier v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 31, 1994No. 91-KP-00875PublishedCited by 78 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

635 So.2d 813 (1994)

Johnny Rufus LANIER

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 91-KP-00875.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 31, 1994.

Johnny Rufus Lanier, pro se.

Michael C. Moore, Atty. Gen., John R. Henry, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

EN BANC.

PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Lanier appeals the August 1991 denial of his petition for post-conviction relief by the Lauderdale County Circuit Court. Although Lanier entered into an agreement with the State whereby he agreed to waive any right to parole, he now challenges the propriety of his sentence — life imprisonment without the…

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2Cases cited49 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  4. Bullington v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  5. United States v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974

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3Cited by78 opinions

  1. Holly v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  2. West v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1998
  3. Jordan v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001
  4. Stewart v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Austin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2001

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