Legal Opinion

Amacker v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided June 13, 1996No. 92-KA-00649-SCTPublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

676 So.2d 909 (1996)

Monroe AMACKER

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 92-KA-00649-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 13, 1996.

Jeffrey Bradley, Hattiesburg, for Appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General, Pat S. Flynn, Asst. Attorney General, Jackson, for Appellee.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

I. INTRODUCTION

This case concerns two issues — whether, under these circumstances, the limitations on the defendant's presentation of evidence under M.R.E. 412, the rape shield rule, is unconstitutional as an impairment of the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present witnesses in…

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2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Rock v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. Hansen v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  3. Mohr v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Hall v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1989
  5. Goodson v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1990

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Hughes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  2. Shelton v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 1998
  3. Herrington v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1997
  4. Hays v. Lafayette County School Dist.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  5. Nelson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2008

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