No Day in SCOTUS for Goff, Scott

The Clarion-Ledger reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari in two murder cases reviewed recently by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

In Scott v. State, the state high court affirmed by a vote of 8-1 the conviction of a defendant whose attorney confided in the trial judge that his client had confessed to the crime.

In Goff v. State, the Court split 5-4 in affirming the conviction of a capital-murder defendant who argued that prosecutors had failed to offer evidence in support of an underlying crime.

Incidentally, for you Mississippi Supreme Court trivia buffs out there, Scott was former Chief Justice Smith's last majority opinion in a criminal case.

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