State v. Morgan

|TI respectfully dissent in this consolidated matter, as I would deny the defendant’s writ application (No. 16-KK-0550) and would grant the state’s writ application (No. 16-KK-0651).

The defendant, Jerome Morgan, was tried and convicted by a twelve person jury of second degree murder for the shooting death of Clarence Landry at a sweet sixteen party in May 1993.1 In 2015, after serving more than 20 years of the mandatory life sentence, and following a post-conviction relief proceeding, Morgan was granted a new trial based, in part, on the recanted testimony of Kevin Johnson and Hakim Shabazz,…