This article may be cited as the “Mississippi Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Act.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-39-101
Short title
Known as the Mississippi Capital Post-Conviction Counsel Act
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 873 So. 2d 991 - Carr v. State (2004)
Most recently applied in Joseph Patrick Brown v. State of Mississippi (September 2017)
Laws, 2000, ch. 569, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 2000.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.