Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The instruction the court gave on self-defense did not conflict in any way with the requested defense instructions. The circuit judge adequately informed the jury on the law of self-defense. We see no need in this case for the trial judge to further delineate some aspect of the affray, which defense counsel were still free to argue to the jury, using as their text the self-defense instruction the court did give. Holmes v. State, 201 Miss. 509 , 29 So.2d 312 (1947).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 455 So. 2d 774 - Berry v. State

2. “[The victims] are white. The defendants are all black. They allege that the trial court erred in permitting the state to exercise peremptory challenges so that no blacks sat on the jury. There is no claimed error as to the selection of the venire, or as to any challenge by the state for cause. There is no merit to this assignment. Gaines v. State, 404 So.2d 557 (Miss.1981).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robert C. Gilliard, Jr. v. Mississippi