Legal Opinion
James Douglas Willie v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided December 8, 2016No. 2014-KA-01041-SCTPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, JUSTICE,
FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. A ' Panola County jury convicted James Douglas Willie of deliberate design murder. He now appeals the conviction and raises the following issues: (1) that the trial court erred in allowing the State’s ballistic expert to give definitive testimony matching bullets from the crime scene to a gun linked to Willie; (2) that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to the ballistics testimony; (8) that the jury returned a guilty verdict against the overwhelming weight of the evidence; and (4) that the trial court improperly answered…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Bush v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2005
- Foster v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1994
- Walker v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Jermaine Crump v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
- Nicholas Demorst v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
- Clyde Chatman, Jr. v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2017
- James Douglas Willie, Sr. v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2018
- Sylvester Garner v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2018
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