Source: https://janeslawblog.com/2014/10/16/decisions-miss-s-ct-oct-16-2014/
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 08:21:47+00:00

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Carl Cook v. Rankin County –anonymous tip with no corroboration does not allow Terry stop – Cook was convicted of a DUI first after Officer Timothy Ware of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District was told by dispatch to “be on the lookout” for a vehicle that was driving erratically and the driver of the vehicle possibly flashing a badge of some sort. As far as Ware knew, the “tip” was from an anonymous caller and was uncorroborated. When Officer Ware spotted a gray Chevrolet Avalanche (which fit the description) he proceeded behind the suspect car. Officer Ware observed the Avalanche for a short period of time, though he did not observe the vehicle driving erratically at that time. Nor did he observe the driver flashing a badge or committing any crimes. Another deputy, Fred Lovett of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, ended up following behind Ware’s car. They eventually pulled the Avalanche over and determined that Cook was driving under the influence (the opinion does not specify how) .
At trial, Cook moved to dismiss the arrest as it was based on an anonymous tip that lacked sufficient indicia of reliability. The judge overruled the motion. Cook appealed to the circuit court and the Court of Appeals with the same result. On cert., the Mississippi Supreme Court reverses and renders.
Appeals erred in affirming the trial court.
(Congrats to Clarence Guthrie who is now a social security judge!).
Eric Foster v. State – use of life expectancy tables in sentencing – Foster was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 40 years. “On appeal to the Court of Appeals, Foster raised, for the first time, that his sentence was illegal. The Court of Appeals held that Foster’s claim was procedurally barred, based on his failure to raise the issue before the trial court. Notwithstanding the bar, the Court of Appeals found that his sentence did not amount to an illegal sentence. We granted Foster’s petition for certiorari and limit our review to the issue presented on appeal, verbatim et literatim, ‘Is Foster’s sentence illegal?'” The Court finds that Foster failwd to preserve this issue and it doesn’t rise to the level of plain error.
[A]ttempts to define precisely at what point a term of years becomes a life sentence . . . [are] of limited utility. Estimated life expectancy is just that – an estimate. The reality is that some persons live beyond their life expectancies while others do not. To hold that a defendant’s sentence must be a certain number of years or months less than his life expectancy would place unwarranted emphasis on a number that is itself only a rough approximation.
Johnson, 29 So. 3d at 744-45 (citing U.S. v. Martin, 115 F.3d 454, 455 (7th Cir. 1997)). Not a single justice disagreed. See also Lindsay v. State, 720 So. 2d 182, 186 (Miss. 1998), and Henderson v. State, 402 So. 2d 325 (Miss. 1980).
court to support a claim of error.
Tommy Hampton v. State – Hampton was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 20 years as an habitual. Hampton raises the same issue as does Foster (that his sentence is in effect a life sentence given his age) and his case meets the same fate: affirmed.
Tom Freeland thinks Justice Coleman’s dissent could be a preview of his vote in McDaniel v. Cochran.
Thus Blogged Anderson’s take on the dissent is called How (not) to read a statute.
Oral arg – Miss.S.Ct. – June 21, 2017 – a stop based on racial profiling?

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