327 So. 2d 255 - Joyce v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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1. “Not only does the evidence prove the tip to be self-verifying, but also that an independent investigation was made before Wann's car was stopped and searched. The narcotics agents observed Wann picking up two very heavy suitcases at the baggage checkout and carrying them to his car. Sixty pounds of marijuana compressed in kilo bricks does not occupy much space. It could be carried in suitcases, but it would make them heavier than usual. They observed Joyce and his companions furtively and nervously looking around to see if anyone was watching them and then as they drove slowly away from the airport the agents observed Wann, the driver, frequently looking in his rearview mirror and appellant and Saczynski, the passengers, frequently looking through the rear window.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Conway v. State

2. “"`It is alleged that there were no jurors within the age group of appellant (18-20) on either the grand jury or the petit jury. It is argued that because this age group has been permitted by amendment to the United States Constitution to register and vote, they should be on the jury lists. Our Legislature has prescribed qualifications for jurors in Section 1762 Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated (Supp. 1971); and as a part thereof is the requirement that jurors be twenty-one years of age or older. The fact that the Constitution of the United States was amended by Amendment XXVI does not qualify persons under twenty-one years of age as jurors under State laws.'" 327 So.2d at 261 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 370 So. 2d 930 - Fermo v. State

3. “The primary purpose in amending Section 264 was to allow a grand jury to remain empaneled until the next term of criminal court. The intervening August 1974 term of court, according to legislative mandate in Mississippi Code Annotated section 9-7-53 (1972), was "for civil business exclusively". The October, 1974, term was the next term of court at which criminal business could be heard and a grand jury empaneled, but this term could not legally open until October 14, 1974. The court was correct in recalling the July 1974 grand jury to act in vacation between terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ingram v. State