Legal Opinion

Conners v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided July 19, 2012No. 2011-KA-00406-SCTPublishedCited by 113 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A Pike County jury convicted James Richard Conners Jr. of two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon. The Circuit Court of Pike County imposed two life sentences for the 'murder convictions and two ten-year sentences for the possession-of-a-firearm-by-a-felon convictions, with all sentences to run consecutively. Conners appeals, arguing that the admission of two forensic reports at his trial violated his right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and constituted plain error. He also…

2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
  4. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by113 opinions

  1. Galloway v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013
  2. Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2018
  3. Jenkins v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2012
  4. Randy Charles Wilson v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2016
  5. Cowart v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2015

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