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Tag Archives: Mississippi Supreme Court
Twenty-Five Years on Death Row
Today, November 10, 2019, marks 25 years since Willie Manning first entered death row. A jury had found him guilty of murdering Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler, despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders. Two years later Willie … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, fingerprint analysis, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jon Steckler, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2019, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Happy 51st birthday!
Today, Wednesday June 12, 2019, is Willie Manning’s 51st birthday. We wish him a very happy birthday. On the surface not much has changed for Willie over the last year, but there are signs that the Mississippi Supreme Court is … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair analysis, innocence, June 2019, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Parchman, USA, Willie Manning, Willie Manning Mississippi, wrongful convictions
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The Validation of Lies*
At Willie Manning’s Steckler-Miller trial, Earl Jordan was the only witness who testified that Willie had confessed to committing the murders. But there were huge problems with Jordan’s credibility. Willie’s “confession”, as recounted by Jordan, involved the highly improbable scenario … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, polygraph, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Anthony Reed, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, December 2017, Earl Jordan, Fly Manning, jailhouse snitches, Jessie Lawrence, Johnny Lowery, Jon Steckler, lie detector, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, polygraph, prosecutorial misconduct, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Hope in Sherwood Brown’s New Trial
Willie Manning must be happy that his fellow death row inmate and African American, Sherwood Brown, has been granted a new trial by the Mississippi Supreme Court. Like Willie, Brown had been pursuing DNA testing; like Willie, he was granted DNA … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, flawed forensics, Injustice, innocence, Mississippi, Sherwood Brown, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, bite mark evidence, DNA testing, Dr Michael West, flawed testimony, Fly Manning, Injustice, Kennedy Brewer, Mississippi, Mississippi Innocence Project, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2017, Sherwood Brown, Tucker Carrington, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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A Terrible Old Rule
Samuel Gross wrote an amicus brief[i] in support of Willie Manning for his concluded case from 1993 (Jimmerson-Jordan murders). This summer Gross, writing more generally, highlighted “a terrible old rule that has done great harm to the accuracy of criminal … Continue reading
Posted in Brady v. Maryland, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, United States v. Bagley, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged Brady v. Maryland, Brief of Amicis Curiae, capital punishment, death penalty, Exculpatory evidence, Fly Manning, Injustice, Jimmerson-Jordan murders, jury, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, prosecutorial misconduct, Samuel Gross, September 2017, United States v. Bagley, USA, verdict, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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A Clear Pattern of Racial Discrimination
At Willie Manning’s trial, the prosecutor rejected African American jurors time and time again.[i] Prosecutors may not use race as the reason for striking potential jurors, so he gave other reasons (and in some cases several reasons). But the racial … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, judges, judicial misconduct, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, racial discrimination, stacked jury, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African Americans, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Judge Lee Howard, judicial misconduct, juror strikes, Justice King, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, prosecutorial misconduct, racial discrimination, racism, September 2017, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Delays in DNA Testing
As long ago as August 2016, it seems that Willie Manning and the State were “attempting to reach an agreement on how to proceed with developing a DNA profile from hairs that were used at Mr. Manning’s trial.” A new Mississippi Supreme … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic testimony, hair testimony, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA profile, DNA testing, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, flawed forensics, Fly Manning, forensic evidence, hair testimony, Injustice, innocence, March 2017, miscarriage of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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Status Update
A Mississippi Supreme Court letter last month confirmed that Willie Manning’s lawyers were trying to proceed with DNA testing on hair from his remaining case. The December letter requests a status update: “The last status update in the above case, as … Continue reading
Posted in DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensic testing, hair testimony, Mississippi Supreme Court, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair analysis, hair testimony, January 2017, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, State of Mississippi Judiciary, Supreme Court of Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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A Good Start to 2017
On death row any good news can raise the spirits. As 2017 begins, Willie Manning must be happy to know that a fellow inmate, Charles Crawford, has been allowed to challenge Mississippi’s plan to use compounded drugs, specifically midazolam, for … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, Charles Crawford, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, lethal injection drugs, midazolam, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged 2017, capital punishment, Charles Crawford, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, executions, Fly Manning, January 2017, lethal injection drugs, lethal injections, midazolam, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Tucker Carrington, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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Midazolam: an Unsuitable Drug
While DNA testing and fingerprint comparison continue in Willie Manning’s case, other claims relevant to him are before the Mississippi Supreme Court. Two other death row inmates, Richard Jordan and Gerald Loden, continue to challenge attempts by the Mississippi Department … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty constitutionality, execution drugs, executions, Fly Manning, Injustice, lethal injection drugs, midazolam, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Dr Craig Stevens, Fly Manning, Gerald Loden, Injustice, July 2016, lethal injection drugs, lethal injections, MDOC, midazolam, Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Supreme Court, pharmacological equivalency, Richard Jordan, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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