Legal Opinion

Owens v. State

Court of Appeals of Mississippi

Decided September 15, 2009No. 2008-CP-01601-COAPublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARNES, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. In the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Charles Douglas Owens, II pleaded guilty and was sentenced to thirty years for armed robbery and ten years for aggravated assault, with the sentences to run consecutively for a total of forty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). After filing an unsuccessful motion for post-conviction relief with the trial court on February 2, 2006, and while the appeal from that decision was pending before this Court, Owens filed a motion for clarification of sentence, which the circuit court…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Brown v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999
  3. Smith v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2002
  4. Lockett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1992
  5. Sykes v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2000

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Cummings v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2011
  2. Lawrence v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2012
  3. Johnson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2012
  4. Williams v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2012
  5. Marcus H. Harris v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2016

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