Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Fulks v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 11, 2013No. 2011-KA-00908-SCTPublished

1ConcurrenceKitchens, Justice

¶ 88. While I agree that it was not error for the trial court to allow Fulks’s testimony from his first trial to be adduced by the State during its case-in-chief during the instant trial, I do not subscribe to the majority’s analysis in that regard. I also agree that there is no reversible error on the recusal issue, but in reaching this conclusion, the majority tends to confuse the appellate standard of review. For these reasons, I concur in result only and offer the reasoning which led me to conclude that the defendant’s testimony from the first trial was admissible in the second.

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2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Hunter v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1996
  2. Buchanan v. BuchananMississippi Supreme Court · 1991
  3. Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003
  4. Stringer v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1986
  5. McCullough v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1999

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