Opinion ID: 1919354
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues raised in petition for writ of certiorari

Text: (1) Whether medical opinion is sufficient evidence to warrant a conviction in a circumstantial evidence capital murder case. (2) Whether failure to fully reconstitute or reconvene the jury denies Appellant due process and equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the U.S. and Mississippi Constitutions. (3) Whether [almost five] years after the discharge of the jury and after the Court of Appeals has issued its opinion is impractical and unreasonably long to attempt to reconvene or reconstitute the jury and unfairly prejudiced Appellant. (4) Whether unanimity of responses is required, or to what extent is unanimity required, when jurors are reconvened [almost five] years after being discharged and reconstitution of the jury is incomplete. (5) Whether after the Court of Appeals withdraws an opinion and substitutes another or modified opinion a party can file a motion for rehearing. (6) Whether the Court of Appeals applied the wrong standard. (7) Whether the correct standard was used to determine whether the introduction of extraneous prejudicial information into jury deliberations required Appellant to receive a new trial. (8) Whether the indictment sufficiently apprised Appellant of the charges against him and whether the indictment was properly amended. (9) Whether the trial court improperly restricted the Appellant from presenting evidence essential to his theory of defense and on the issue of jury exposure to extraneous prejudicial information.