mississippi-supreme-court

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6561 Joshua Demien Magee v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-13 Pending IFP collateral-relief criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto mississippi-supreme-court procedural-standards 1) Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may ignore the ex post facto clause by applying new decision rendered in Howell v. State, 358 So. 3d 613, 615…
25A754 Martez Abram v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-30 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal indigent-defendant mississippi-supreme-court supreme-court Question not identified.
25A230 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-08-27 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an…
24-7311 Percy L. Harris v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conviction-review judicial-oversight mississippi-supreme-court pro-se record-omission Did the appellant receive a proper review from the Mississippi Supreme Court after his conviction was affirmed due to documents that were a part of th…
24-5974 James Cobb Hutto, III v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-11-14 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction competency-right constitutional-claim habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court psychological-assessment Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to competency during state post-conviction capital proceedings
20-5372 Melvin Gamage v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mississippi-supreme-court post-conviction-relief Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying post-conviction relief despite the prisoner's claims that his trial counsel was ineffective, th…