Kiker v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Julius Wesley Kiker was convicted by a jury of the March 6, 2002, murder of his wife, Renee Kiker, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Court of Appeals was assigned his direct appeal and affirmed both his conviction and sentence. Kiker v. State (Kiker I), 919 So.2d 190 (Miss.Ct.App.2005). Two years later, a panel of this Court granted Kiker leave to proceed in the trial court on his post-conviction claim that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated due to his trial counsel’s representation of a witness for the State. An…