Legal Opinion
Coleman v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided October 24, 2013No. 2009-CT-01350-SCTPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KITCHENS, Justice,
for the Court:
¶ 1. The motion for rehearing is granted. The original opinions are withdrawn, and these opinions are substituted therefor.
¶ 2. More than two years after his trial, Patrick Coleman was ordered to a retrospective mental competency hearing by the Court of Appeals because he erroneously had been denied a pretrial competency hearing by the Lauderdale County Circuit Court. Finding that the nunc pro tunc competency hearing did not adequately protect Coleman’s due process rights and the procedural guarantees of Uniform Rule of Circuit and County Court Practice 9.06,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Pate v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Drope v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Box v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
- Hearn v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2008
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Donald Keith Smith v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2014
- Terry Pitchford v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2017
- Erik Wayne Hollie v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2015
- Eric LaQuinne Brown v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2015
- Rickman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2014
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