Brown v. State

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In 1994, Joseph Patrick Brown (a.k.a. Peanut Brown) was convicted of capital murder for shooting a convenience-store clerk to death on August 8, 1992, during the commission of an armed robbery. Brown was sentenced to death by lethal injection. His conviction and sentence were affirmed by this Court in Brown v. State, 682 So.2d 340 (Miss.1996). Pamela Farrington and Donald Ogden represented Brown at trial and on direct appeal. On March 17, 1998, Brown filed an application for post-conviction relief, which *728this Court granted, in part, for the sole…