Roach v. State

¶ 10. Because I submit that this case should be remanded to the trial court for further evidentiary hearing consistent with Gladney v. Clarksdale Beverage Co., 625 So.2d 407 (Miss.1993) and James v. State, 912 So.2d 940 (Miss.2005), I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion. I will first review the evidence presented at the evidentiary hearing in the trial court and then review Mississippi law as applied to the facts of this case.1

A. Threshold Showing of Extraneous Prejudicial Information in the Record

¶ 11. I respectfully submit that the evidence in the record clearly supports a…