Legal Opinion
Booker v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided October 23, 2008No. 2004-CT-02143-SCTPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI
RANDOLPH, Justice,
for the Court.
¶ 1. The facts in the case sub judice were aptly summarized by the Mississippi Court of Appeals, see Booker v. State, 5 So.3d 411, 416, 2008 WL 224070 at *1, 2008 Miss.App. LEXIS 77 at ⅜3-4 (Miss.Ct.App. January 29, 2008), and do not bear repeating. In short, Anthony Terrell Booker was arrested for the murder of Dorian Johnson and subsequently was indicted for capital murder. On May 17, 2004, Booker was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Booker’s…
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