Legal Opinion
Davis v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 3, 2012No. 2010-CA-01770-SCTPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, Presiding Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. In 1992, Jeffrey Davis was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.1 After we affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal, he filed a petition for post-conviction relief, claiming, among other things, that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase of his trial. Based on the evidence produced by Davis’s new counsel-that was available to, but never discovered or produced by, his trial counsel-we reverse the trial court’s denial of post-conviction relief and remand for a new sentencing trial.
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2Cases cited23 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Skipper v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Timothy Robert Ronk v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2019
- Hibbler v. StateCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2012
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- Cornelius Young v. State of MississippiCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 2020
- Jason Isham v. State of MississippiMississippi Supreme Court · 2015
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