Voice exemplar is not protected by Fifth Amendment
Facts On October 7, 1996, Charles Peters, a confidential police informant, met with Officer Norman Goleman, a narcotics agent for Walthall County, to discuss the purchase of cocaine from Billy Joe Martin. After being equipped with a transmitter, Peters drove to an area frequented by Martin. Shortly thereafter, Martin arrived. At approximately 7:33 p.m., Peters […]
Handwriting exemplars do not violate the constitution
Facts During the day of November 9, 1994, Joseph Daniel Burns and Phillip Hale went to the Town House Motel on Gloster Street in Tupelo, Mississippi where Mike McBride was the hotel manager. Phillip Hale testified that he and McBride were friends, and that he introduced Burns to McBride on November 9, 1994. Phillip Hale […]
Subject who had been living in trailer for two weeks had expectation of privacy
Facts In 1993 Tony Roberts went to visit his two year old son, Codera Bradley, in Pachuta, Mississippi. Codera’s mother allowed the child to spend the night with his father. At about 9:15 p.m. Roberts and Codera left the house and drove towards Roberts’ home. On the same evening Kelvin Jordan and his friend Frontrell […]
Probable cause for blood draw found in this case
Facts In 1995, Joel Craig Wilkerson was driving Westbound on Stateline Road in DeSoto County, Mississippi. He struck the vehicle driven by Cynthia McGowan in a head on collision. Witnesses to the accident included Wilkerson, McGowan and Candida Sears, who claims to have witnessed the accident through her rear view mirror. Randy Parks also witnessed […]
Photo lineup with white border for subject was not overly suggestive
Facts Catherine Wigley was working as a clerk in Grice’s Package Store in Belzoni in 1996, when two black males entered the store and attempted to rob the store at gunpoint. One of them accidentally set off an alarm while attempting to force open the cash register, and the two men fled the store. Wigley […]
Statement induced by leniency not admissible
Facts In 1996, several agents from the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics met with a confidential informant and conducted a preliminary meeting relating to a proposed drug buy from a suspected dealer, Bennie Harper. After searching the informant and his vehicle, the agents installed a transmitter in the vehicle and instructed the informant to place a […]