Opinion ID: 1103987
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Jurors' Speculation of Potential Release.

Text: ¶ 67. Bell claims that counsel failed to eliminate any jury misperceptions that he would be eligible for parole. For this point, Bell cites Williams v. State for the policy that[r]eference to the possibility of parole should the defendant not be sentenced to die [sic] are wholly out of place at the sentencing phase of a capital murder trial . . . Williams v. State, 445 So.2d 798, 813 (Miss.1984). In Williams, the Court ordered that the defendant be resentenced based on improper comments by the prosecutor which denied the defendant a fair sentencing hearing. Id. at 814. ¶ 68. In the instant case, there is no evidence of jury misperceptions. Bell fails to cite, and there is nothing from the record to suggest, that the prosecutor made any improper comments analogous to Williams. This claim is without merit.