Legal Opinion

Fulgham v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 28, 2010No. 2007-DP-01312-SCTPublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Kristi Fulgham was convicted of capital murder1 and sentenced to death for killing her husband, Joey Fulgham.2 Fulgham claims numerous errors at the guilt and sentencing phases of her trial. We find merit in one assignment of error: The trial court committed reversible error by limiting mitigation evidence. Specifically, the court erred by refusing to allow social worker Adrienne Dorsey-Kidd to testify to her observations as mitigating evidence at the sentencing phase. So we affirm Fulgham’s conviction of capital murder and reverse her sentence of death and…

2Cases cited59 opinions

  1. Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Mills v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  4. Michigan v. JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  5. Schad v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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3Cited by70 opinions

  1. Batiste v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2013
  2. Corrothers v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2014
  3. People v. McDowellCalifornia Supreme Court · 2012
  4. Keller v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2014
  5. Ronk v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2015

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