Legal Opinion

Lockett v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided September 30, 1987No. DP-64PublishedCited by 310 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

517 So.2d 1317 (1987)

Carl Daniel LOCKETT

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. DP-64.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 30, 1987.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1988.

Clive A. Stafford Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Marvin L. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Donald G. Barlow, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, and Orbie Craft, Dist. Atty., Brandon, for appellee.

EN BANC.

DAN M. LEE, Justice, for the Court:

I

This capital murder appeal arises out of the murder of a Rankin County man as his wife watched, horrified. The Defendant, sentenced to die, has presented a great…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.

2Cases cited156 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948

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3Cited by310 opinions

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  4. Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
  5. Walker v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995

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