Legal Opinion

Foster v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 16, 1996No. 95-DP-00750-SCTPublishedCited by 226 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

687 So.2d 1124 (1996)

Ronald Chris FOSTER a/k/a Ron Chris Foster

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 95-DP-00750-SCT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 16, 1996.

Rehearing Denied January 23, 1997.

Andre de Gruy, Jackson, for appellant.

Michael C. Moore, Attorney General; Marvin L. White, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

SMITH, Justice, for the Court:

This matter comes before this Court upon an Application for Leave to File Motion to Vacate Conviction and/or Death Sentence pursuant to our Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Statute, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-1, et seq. (Supp. 1994).…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited55 opinions

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  2. Jones v. BarnesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  5. Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985

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3Cited by226 opinions

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