Quinn v. Mississippi
Annotate this CaseA jury convicted Archie Quinn of capital murder, and the trial judge sentenced him to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Quinn appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing: (1) that the jury was incompletely instructed on the elements of the crime; and (2) that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The Supreme Court found that the trial judge properly instructed the jury and therefore affirmed on that issue. The Court also found that the record in this case did not “affirmatively show” ineffective assistance of counsel. As such, the Court affirmed Quinn’s conviction, but dismissed his ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim without prejudice to his right to raise it in a proper petition for post-conviction relief.
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