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Wilson v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided September 24, 2009No. 2007-DP-01218-SCTPublishedCited by 52 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CARLSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. After being indicted by a Lee County grand jury on the charges of capital murder and felonious child abuse, William Matthew Wilson pleaded guilty in Lee County Circuit Court to both counts in the indictment. Wilson also waived a sentencing hearing before a jury; thus, after a sentencing hearing before the trial judge, Wilson was sentenced to death by lethal injection for capital murder, and to serve a twenty-year sentence for felonious child abuse. Wilson has appealed, attacking the sentence of death imposed pursuant to his conviction for capital…

2Cases cited45 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Payne v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. Melendez-Diaz v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 2009

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3Cited by52 opinions

  1. Batiste v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013
  2. Pitchford v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
  3. Moffett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2010
  4. Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  5. Hutto v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2017

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