Antwine Equality Graves v. State of Mississippi

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered an evidentiary.hearing on Antwine Equality Graves’s post-conviction relief (PCR) motion. The sole issue was the recantation of a witness from Graves’s murder trial. As directed, the circuit judge conducted the hearing but was not swayed by the recanting witness’s affidavit or his new testimony that he did not really see Graves shoot the victim. So the circuit judge denied Graves’s request for a new trial. After review, we find-the-judge’s denial was supported by substantial evi dence and was not clearly erroneous. We thus…