Despite cultural barriers, subject statement is admissible
Facts In 2001, Ngan Tran and Thong Le planned to rob the home of Minh Heiu Thi Huynh, where she lived with her two daughters, Thuy Hang Huynh Nguyen, age fifteen, and Thanh Truc Huynh Nguyen, age eleven. Armed with a gun, the two men went to Minh’s home, knocked on the door, and were […]
Automobile exception requirements
Facts In 2002, Officer Raymond Rickoll, an off duty police officer, sat on his front porch smoking a cigarette when he noticed a two toned, gold or champagne colored Lexus pass by his home in Picayune two or three times. Rickoll said he was intentionally keeping an eye on the Sunflower grocery store, about 100 yards […]
Subject confessed to possession of drugs
Facts In 2001, while driving his girlfriend’s car, Marlos Magee rear-ended a Harrison County deputy sheriff’s car. Because he had no driver’s license, Magee was taken into custody and transported to the police station. The vehicle Magee was driving was impounded and an inventory search was conducted at the scene of the accident. During the inventory […]
driver has No standing to object to a search of a stolen car
Facts In 2001, Charles Richardson was murdered in his home in Lee County, Mississippi. A week prior to the death of Richardson, Derrick Walker claims a man approached him and told Walker that he had to kill Richardson or he would kill his mother and stepfather. Walker knew Richardson because the men shared a familial connection–Walker’s […]
Riding in the middle of two northbound lanes is careless driving
Facts Officer Brad Taylor, and Reserve Officer Jeremy Pace were on patrol in Booneville on New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day. At around 2:30 a.m., Taylor noticed that a vehicle, traveling northward on Hwy 145, was riding in the middle of the two northbound lanes. This particular road is a […]
A confession must be given voluntarily and not because of promises, threats, or inducements
Facts In 1998, Michael Manix, Elia Check and Michael Janes set out with the intent to engage in criminal activity. Manix, who was 28 years old at the time, needed money to pay his car note and to make rent for the trailer he lived in with his girlfriend. Along with Check and Janes, both 18, […]