Opinion ID: 1103979
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: puckett was denied his rights guaranteed by the fifth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution and mississippi law due to the cumulative effect of the errors at his capital trial.

Text: ¶ 107. Puckett asserts that the cumulative effect of errors committed at trial denied him a fair trial. Puckett is not entitled to a perfect trial, only a fair trial. McGilberry v. State, 843 So.2d 21, 33 (Miss.2003), citing Sand v. State, 467 So.2d 907, 911 (Miss.1985). Puckett cannot support an assertion that he has been denied a fair trial. ¶ 108. This Court may reverse a conviction and/or sentence based upon the cumulative effect of errors that otherwise do not independently require a reversal. Jenkins v. State, 607 So.2d 1171, 1183-84 (Miss.1992); Hansen v. State, 592 So.2d 114, 153 (Miss.1991). It is true that in capital cases, although no error, standing alone, requires reversal, the aggregate effect of various errors may create an atmosphere of bias, passion and prejudice that they effectively deny the defendant a fundamentally fair trial. Conner v. State, 632 So.2d 1239, 1278 (Miss.1993) (citing Woodward v. State, 533 So.2d 418, 432 (Miss.1988)). ¶ 109. We find that a review of the record, the briefs, and the arguments reveals that there were no individual errors which required reversal and thus there is no aggregate collection of minor errors that would, as a whole, mandate a reversal of either Puckett's conviction or his sentence. This issue is therefore without merit.