This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-1
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Known as the Mississippi Uniform Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act
Applied in 137 court decisions — leading case 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole v. State (1995)
Most recently applied in Joseph Patrick Brown v. State of Mississippi (September 2017)
Laws, 1984, ch. 378, § 1.
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