Legal Opinion

Harris v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided February 6, 1997No. 92-CT-00297-SCTPublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

704 So.2d 1286 (1997)

Leo HARRIS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 92-CT-00297-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 6, 1997.

W. Richard Johnson, Prewitt, Johnson & Vance, Vicksburg, for Appellant.

Leo Harris, Pearl, pro se.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Klingfuss, Sp. Asst. Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

Harris, on Petition for Writ of Certiorari, asks that this Court reverse a unanimous Court of Appeals decision by which that court affirmed his conviction and sentence of sixteen years for possession of cocaine with intent to…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Pittman; Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Lee; Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Pittman; Concurring in part, dissenting in part · McRAE; Dissent.

2Cases cited58 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Jackson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  2. Cohen v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1998
  3. Russell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  4. Sims v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2008
  5. McCalpin v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013

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