Legal Opinion
Brown v. Epps
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided December 21, 2010No. 2:08CV175-M-APublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MICHAEL P. MILLS, Chief Judge.
On January 3, 2007 Derrick Latory Brown, the petitioner, was convicted of selling cocaine in the Circuit Court of Tate County, Mississippi, and sentenced to fifteen years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Brown appealed his conviction to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The case was assigned to the court of appeals, which found that Brown’s claim of error regarding hearsay evidence had merit; therefore, it reversed the trial court judgment and remanded the case for a new trial. Before the new trial began, the state filed…
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