Legal Opinion

George Affleck v. State of Mississippi

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided December 15, 2015No. 2013-KA-00763-COAPublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

IRVING, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. George Affleck appeals his convictions of capital murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. Affleck argues his convictions should be reversed because: (1) the trial court improperly admitted statements to police under the excited-utterance exception to the hearsay rule; (2) the trial court erroneously allowed testimonial statements to police into evidence in violation of the Confrontation Clause; (3) the trial court erroneously allowed the State to present irrelevant and unauthenticated evidence; (4) the trial court erroneously allowed the State to…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  2. Davis v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  3. Bush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
  4. Neal v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1984
  5. Ohio v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 2015

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Hutto v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  2. James Clarence McGlothin v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
  3. James Clarence McGlothin v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
  4. James Cobb Hutto, III v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  5. Kedrick Tevon Lee a/k/a Kedrick Lee v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2023

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