Legal Opinion

Chaddy Brooks v. State of Mississippi

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 17, 2016No. 2015-KA-00933-SCTPublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DICKINSON, PRESIDING JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Chaddy Brooks was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve forty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. She now appeals, arguing that there was ■insufficient evidence to convict her, and that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶2. On the morning of November 22, 2013 — while Brooks’s boyfriend, Danielle Gore, was in the bathroom — Brooks looked through his cell phone and found text messages from another ' woman. Brooks confronted Gore,…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Bush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
  3. Weathersby v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
  4. Holland v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Correy James Dartez v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2015

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3Cited by33 opinions

  1. Walter Dewayne Sanford v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  2. Xavier Collins Johnson v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  3. Haynes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  4. Richard Lamar Green v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  5. Kelvin D. Ashford v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017

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