Brooks v. Kelly

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

The state of Mississippi appeals a grant of habeas relief to Donna Brooks. We reverse.

I

A

Brooks was convicted of selling oxycodone and hydromorphone within 1,500 feet of a church and is serving her sentence. The evidence was strong. The state produced an audio recording of the drug buy, supplemented with eyewitness testimony from police and a confidential informant. The state identified money retrieved from Brooks right after the drug buy as cash that police had lent the informant to purchase the drugs. A crime-lab analyst confirmed the chemical composition of the…