Bennett v. State

With deference, I respectfully dissent.

Today, Mississippi is first again — the first jurisdiction in the United States to consider a bail bond forfeiture as the basis for a plea of double jeopardy. Although Miss. Code Ann. § 63-11-37 (Supp.1987) states that for “purposes of Section 63-11-30, a bond forfeiture shall operate as and be considered as a conviction,” the majority’s inference that such a provision implicates the Double Jeopardy Clause flies in the teeth of the constitutional language at issue: “No person’s life or liberty shall be twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense; but…