Legal Opinion
Adrian Montgomery v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided September 13, 2018No. 2017-KA-00221-SCTPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAXWELL, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. On August 6, 2013, Adrian Montgomery and Terome O'Neal were drinking beer and liquor and smoking marijuana in a park. An eyewitness saw O'Neal knock Montgomery's joint to the ground. This prompted Montgomery to angrily attack O'Neal. Paramedics found O'Neal on the ground unconscious. He died days later in the hospital of multiple blunt-force trauma. Montgomery was indicted for deliberate-design murder but convicted on the lesser-included crime of depraved-heart murder.
¶ 2. Montgomery's first trial resulted in a mistrial. The judge granted a mistrial when…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Downum v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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