Legal Opinion

Flowers v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided January 14, 2014No. 2012-KA-01405-COAPublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. After a trial held on December 12, 2011, a Rankin County jury convicted Kenneth Flowers of two counts of armed robbery. The trial judge sentenced Flowers to serve twenty-six years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) on each count, with the sentences to run concurrently. Flowers appeals his conviction and sentence. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. On the night of September 18, 2008, an armed robbery occurred at the Super D Drug Store on Highway 80 in Pearl, Mississippi. Two men wearing masks entered the store and rushed to the…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Lilly v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  4. Herring v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  5. Lockett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1987

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Bobby Lee Allen v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
  2. Jerome Clemons v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2016
  3. Rodney Carter v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
  4. Desmond Jamar Patterson v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2018
  5. Bobby Lee Allen v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017

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