Jamie Danielle Carpenter v. State of Mississippi

LEE, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1, Between June 11 and 12, 2010, thirteen-month-old C.W. 1 sustained life-threatening injuries consistent with child abuse. The only two adults who had access to C.W. during the relevant time period were his mother and his mother’s boyfriend— Jamie Carpenter and Thomas Lindhurst, respectively. 2 .

¶ 2. Carpenter was convicted in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Mississippi, of felony child abuse and was sentenced to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). On appeal, Carpenter asserts: (1) prosecu-torial misconduct; (2) the…