Markeith D. Fleming v. State of Mississippi

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In this murder and aggravated-assault prosecution, the defendant, Markeith Fleming, claimed he was in another county at his girlfriend’s house at the time the shooting occurred. Approximately two weeks before trial, the State disclosed its intent to have an AT & T engineer testify about Fleming’s whereabouts, using Fleming’s cell-phone records. Fleming requested a continuance to obtain his own expert on the subject, but the circuit judge denied that motion, finding that the engineer would testify only about information that…