Walden v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseIn October 2006, a jury convicted Nathaniel Walden for murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling. The Mississippi Supreme Court granted Walden leave to proceed in the circuit court with a petition for post-conviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of counsel during the plea bargaining process. The circuit judge summarily dismissed the petition, erroneously concluding that the petitioner had not timely filed or obtained leave from the Supreme Court. In the alternative, the circuit judge dismissed the petition because it relied on the petitioner’s own affidavit, but the circuit judge failed to consider that the petitioner claimed good cause for failure to obtain other affidavits. The Supreme Court reversed the summary dismissal and remanded this case to the circuit court for further consideration.
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