Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 14, 2013No. 2012-KA-01544-SCTPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This is a direct appeal of Sacory Brown’s conviction for burglary of a dwelling. (Brown received a twenty-five year sentence, with eighteen years to serve and seven years suspended with five of those years on post-release supervision). On appeal, Brown argues that the Miranda warning he was given before making an inculpatory statement to the police was insufficient because it did not explicitly inform him of his right to stop talking to the police at any time. He also argues that the twenty-five-year sentence is grossly disproportionate in violation of the…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  4. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  5. Harmelin v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Burleson v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2015
  2. Laterrence Lenoir v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
  3. William Michael Jordan v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2015
  4. Charles David Burleson, II v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2015
  5. Dennis Lawrence Smith v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2019

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